Bug 133523

Summary:	Don't group consecutive incoming messages if the timespan between messages are long
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Emanuel Steen <kozz>
Component:	Chatwindow Styles	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Emanuel Steen 2006-09-03 22:13:08 UTC

Version:           0.12.2 (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
Compiler:          gcc-4.1 PowerPC
OS:                Linux

Every now and then I'm away from the computer for a while and it sometimes happens that someone messages but maybe with a timespan of about some hour between the messages. Unfortunately with grouping of consecutive messages only the time stamp of the first message is shown. It would be nice to be able to see the time if it was a long time between to incoming messages. One solution could be to not group consecutive messages if the time between the last message and the new incoming is more than say 30 min.

An other option could be to show the time for each incoming message, but I don't think that is such a good idea. I don't know, maybe displaying the time for a message if one hover with the mouse above it?

Not sure which solution is the best, if anyone has a better idea I would be happy to hear it. But anyway, would be nice to see the time for messages if the time difference is big between them.

Comment 1 Johannes Wienke 2006-12-23 14:38:52 UTC

I can confirm this. It's a bit annoying, because if someone sends you a message and he was also the last one, who wrote something in the last session, you can't see when the new message arrived.

A possible solution could also be to display a completely new message, if you changed your status in between the two messages (this would work, if you were offline, too).

Comment 2 Jan Ritzerfeld 2006-12-23 15:32:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122600 ***