Bug 246427

Summary:	Single/multiple choice dialog
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] telepathy	Reporter:	Daniele E. Domenichelli <ddomenichelli>
Component:	libktelepathy	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	duncan, kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	All
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Bug Blocks:	246229

Description Daniele E. Domenichelli 2010-08-01 15:23:30 UTC

We need a dialog to allow a multiple contact/metacontact choice to allow a fast selection of contacts.

It must have a few methods like getContact()/getMetaContact() or for multiple files getContacts()/getMetaContacts() and maybe a textbox to set the name of the room to use for multiple contact operations (for example for dbustubes).

The dialog should be designed to allow applications to customize it by subclassing. It should use geometry management to ensure that subclasses can easily add children that will be incorporated into the layout. (see KFileDialog)

And it should also be pretty ;)

Comment 1 Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett 2010-08-01 15:56:39 UTC

The metacontact wording in Kopete ended floating up to the user interface and was pretty confusing for the average user.

I think an opportunity telepathy gives is to hide the channel as much as possible, there fore I think for a "person" (kopete: metacontact) the wording "person" or "contact" is better.

For what we called kopete contact, the wording should be account, or channel, etc.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2012-10-26 07:15:23 UTC

We have ContactGridDialog, and it's also provided as a widget if people want to make their own dialog.