Bug 146835

Summary: My wishlist about kopete GUI and Menu
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Matteo Nardi <91.matteo>
Component: generalAssignee: Charles Connell <charles>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Matteo Nardi 2007-06-15 23:32:37 UTC 
Version:           0.12.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I started using Kopete today and this is my impression of its GUI.

I think it is not very usable in some of it's menu...
There are just too many options or better there are twice the same option or completely useless options... because of this I have to swim between options to find what i need.

Just to show what i mean:
(Tray icon on right clic)
-Nobody will ever use *minimize* since you can just clic on the icon to do that;
-When someone add a contact he open the full window...or at least i do so...
-Set status is the most important thing you do with tray icon... if you have to go away fast you can't look for that options... take away that awful submenu for global status;
-Set status for specific protocol: ok, it may be useful, but it's boring to swim again in submenu and set every time "no status message"... it should be by default and if someone need a particular status message, he just add it than;  

And this is just for tray icon... ^_^
I read on the official website FAQ, and I know you have to respect kde "standard" and I don't really know which these standard are... but I really think the menu system needs a clean up...


This is my opinion, I don't want to flame... 
And... like always... sorry for my English and if i didn't found a similar thread in the bug tracker.
If you want I'll  post others suggestions (this was only tray icon), I haven't already wrote the rest because you may just blame me and I want to go to bed at the moment...
Comment 1 Charles Connell 2008-03-08 21:53:20 UTC 
Please file one bug report for each complaint. This one will count for the tray menu.

I think that the Minimize option can go away, but the rest should stay as they are.
Comment 2 Matteo Nardi 2008-03-09 11:45:03 UTC 
In Kopete 0.50.1 the tray menu has been clean and (personally) I like it.

Only thing:
The "Add Contact" items has a sub menu asking to specify the account.
Wouldn't it be better to just put the "Add Contact" action in the contact submenu (username@domain.com)?

About "Minimize", I've seen every kde application has it, so removing it might be inconsistent. (yes, I change idea often)
Comment 3 Charles Connell 2008-03-09 22:00:45 UTC 
That's interesting, because the KDE apps I use don't have it. For instance Klipper, KWalletManager, and KMail. I like your idea about the add contact menu. I'll take the minimize thing for this bug and I'll look into the add contact thing as well.
Comment 4 Charles Connell 2010-01-24 04:06:55 UTC 
Unassigning
Comment 5 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:27:18 UTC 
Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.