Bug 81497

Summary:	Konversation activity indicators are not very clear
Product:	[Applications] konversation	Reporter:	Malcolm Hunter <malcolm.hunter>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konversation Developers <konversation-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bartoschek, Dhraak
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Malcolm Hunter 2004-05-13 14:21:04 UTC

Version:           0.14 (using KDE 3.2.90 (CVS >= 20040117), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB

When the indicator lights on the channel/msg tabs start flashing (when there is activity), they are not very clear. Can they be made clearer? Maybe use black as the OFF colour when they are flashing and/or change the text on the tab (colour, italic, bold, etc.).

Many thanks.

Comment 1 Ismail Donmez 2005-01-06 11:06:33 UTC

*** Bug 96383 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 groot 2005-02-09 00:46:07 UTC

The latest version of Konversation (0.16) has reduced the contrast of the flashing lights even further; on a regular channel, the activity lights _used_ to flash #0f9d00 and #15df00 by default (near as kcolorchooser can pick 'em off the screen). Those are a dark green and a considerably lighter green. Now, we get #2A8822 and #42C829, and the contrast there seems much less.

Comment 3 illogic-al 2005-02-10 21:14:36 UTC

*** Bug 98736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Riku Leino 2005-02-12 10:18:30 UTC

I guess it's just something I've used to with xchat but it would be nice if the indicator could only be the font color change in the channel name. Current solution only makes a tab wider.

Comment 5 Christian Herenz 2005-02-12 13:13:45 UTC

I also think that with the indicator lights it must be possible to distinguish between different activities. The flashes are always the same, either if there are nickchanges or joins/parts in a channel or if there is really something spoken.

Comment 6 StevenR 2005-04-06 22:50:50 UTC

I would like the indicator lights to change colour, depending on activity. Eg green for something spoken, red for a highlighted message and dark blue/marroon for nickchanges, join/parts ,etc. I personally don't use the flashing feature, as I find it distracting.

Comment 7 kdebugs 2005-06-17 12:57:47 UTC

StevenR: Good idea.

Comment 8 Dario Abatianni 2006-01-15 01:32:48 UTC

Current svn has a new LED feature. Try it out and reopen this bug if it is not what you need.