Bug 320709

Summary:	Show only time for the last message
Product:	[Unmaintained] telepathy	Reporter:	Alex Fiestas <afiestas>
Component:	text-ui	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, mklapetek
Priority:	NOR
Version:	git-latest
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Alex Fiestas 2013-06-04 11:51:25 UTC

Showing the time for the last message in a conversation makes most sense, but I'm struggling to imagine one case where I want to see the time on all messages.

In the log viewer it makes sense as well since you are using it specifically to read some backlog, but in the chat it only adds noise.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2013-06-04 13:08:49 UTC

That's theme dependent I'd say.

We can either:
1) Turn this into a bug of "change the default theme"
2) Close with "use different theme"

I'm inclined to 2) but it's up to text-ui maintainers.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2013-06-05 18:37:35 UTC

Timestamps in the default theme are low contrast so do not have a lot of "noise".
Having everything jump and move about as you hide the timestamp would add more "noise" and if you didn't make use of the extra space, there's little point hiding them.

Summary: No. Use a different theme.