Bug 127824

Summary:	konversation needs an xchat-esque nick margin
Product:	[Applications] konversation	Reporter:	Alistair Strachan <alistair>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konversation Developers <konversation-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.19
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alistair Strachan 2006-05-22 15:59:35 UTC

Version:           0.19 (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          GCC 4.1.0 
OS:                Linux

Konversation is a nice client, but X-Chat has an unbeatable feature where it right aligns nicks to an dynamically shifting margin that separates the flow of text on an IRC channel.

In my opinion, such a margin improves readability of the channel text and I'd love it if Konversation could do this too; it's the last thing that's stopping me from switching.

Comment 1 Mike McQuaid 2006-05-22 16:11:41 UTC

I too agree this would be a nice feature

Comment 2 Eike Hein 2006-05-22 16:34:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84391 ***

Comment 3 Alistair Strachan 2006-05-22 16:46:07 UTC

This is NOT a duplicate. The margin proposed aligns ALL text, regardless of nick. The other bug report marked as a duplicate may well align only text from any given nick, not relative to the alignments of text from other nicks.

I propose only a full margin would be adequate.

Comment 4 Eike Hein 2006-05-22 16:56:32 UTC

a) As I noted in the first bug I closed as a dupe of #84391 (#93407, which concerned itself with XChat style column alignment as well), a well-designed fix for one of those gets us both capabilities. 

b) I have changed the title of #84391 to "Column alignment in the chat view" to cover both cases conceptually. I've also just added a new comment there to flesh out the issue a bit.

c) Note that we're not oblivious to this request. As you can probably imagine, it's a pretty popular one. Improved layouting mechanics for column alignment is on our minds and agenda. No need to panic :-).

Comment 5 Alistair Strachan 2006-05-22 17:12:31 UTC

Thanks Eike, I look forward to seeing it.

Comment 6 Mike McQuaid 2006-09-22 01:48:55 UTC

No rushing you guys, but curious if there is any update on this?

Comment 7 Eike Hein 2006-09-22 02:11:25 UTC

Not before KDE 4, sorry. I.e. sometime next year, hopefully. Perhaps. No promises. ;)