Bug 151264

Summary:	history view is very ugly
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	kde0987
Component:	History Plugin	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	karaluh
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description kde0987 2007-10-23 23:14:46 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)

two in one:

1.  the history view is very ugly, it'd be better if the contact names were used (preferrably nicknames, with the ability to see the screen name) rather than "<" and ">".

2.  it would be nice if in the chat window the history was separated by a date marker of some sort, like Miranda, Adium, iChat, etc.

Comment 1 Charles Connell 2007-10-23 23:39:31 UTC

*** Bug 151266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 karaluh 2009-03-04 15:54:51 UTC

I agree, current view needs huge look and feel improvement.

Comment 3 Rasto Stanik 2009-05-13 23:36:54 UTC

I'm running KDE 4.2.3 at the moment and the history view still looks terribly because it wastes space. It could be much more compact. I looked in the source code and it seems that the window shows html text where each message is shown with timestamp, nick and the message text - but the message text is enclosed in <p> tag. So it has empty line before and after the message text. I was not able to find out where that comes from.

However, ideally, the history plugin would use the same style as is the chat window style configured in configuration.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:26:35 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Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.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.