| Summary: | kopete needs an away message manager | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kopete | Reporter: | Nicholas Pilon <npilon> |
| Component: | libkopete | Assignee: | Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | denilsonsa, luke-jr+kdebugs, sknauert |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Patch for editing previous away message, and copy sombody's away message | ||
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Description
Nicholas Pilon
2004-11-07 18:44:42 UTC
Gaim away message manager is something that even the Gaim devels hate. I heard somewhere that they're planning to get rid of it for Gaim 2.0. It would be interesting to see what they replace it with. 110585 cannot delete the away message i wanna This bug is also talking about the same thing. *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** *** Bug 133355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE> <P>I don't use on dis moment Linux but windows ,it takes to mutch time ,and that is the reasen that i installait windows Again.</P> <P>greatings</P> <P> </P> <P>Hendrik<BR><BR></P></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> <HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1> <DIV></DIV>From: <I>owner@bugs.kde.org</I><BR>Reply-To: <I>kopete-devel@kde.org, 92863@bugs.kde.org</I><BR>To: <I>kopete-devel@kde.org</I><BR>Subject: <I>[kopete-devel] [Bug 92863] kopete needs an away message manager</I><BR>Date: <I>31 Aug 2006 23:23:24 -0000</I><BR>>------- You are receiving this mail because: -------<BR>>You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.<BR>><BR>>http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92863<BR>>mattr kde org changed:<BR>><BR>> What |Removed |Added<BR>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> CC| |sknauert wesleyan edu<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>------- Additional Comments From mattr kde org 2006-09-01 01:23 -------<BR>>*** Bug 133355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***<BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>kopete-devel mailing list<BR>>kopete-devel@kde.org<BR>>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div><br clear=all><hr>MSN Search, for accurate results! <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMAENNL/2755??PS=47575" target="_top">Click here</a> </html> I would hate to take the gaim road for this (haven't looked at away messages in gaim 2.0 though). The current system is quick and simple. I do not need a title, the actual message is self-explanatory. I would have to spare time to find a title. The real problem is that the away message seems to stay as a presence message in some protocols (such as msn), but let's keep that for another bugreport. Please keep the system as it is now. It works great ! What I'm thinking of an away manager in the sense like the AIM official client 4.x series. Message management that isn't intrusive. If the default was to make the title the message and save in the message history, you could have the exact same functionality you do now. However, the main issue here I feel is that kopete was designed for very short away messages. Messages over (32 I think) chars don't fit in the dialogue box without scrolling (I especially don't like that the LineEdit widget moved into the Set Status Message button for 0.12, sorry) so that you can't easily preview, edit, spellcheck, etc. your away messages. I think the ideally the next version should move back into a dialogue box, use a TextEdit widget (automatically transforming \n into <br> though more HTML support would be nice via the same optional toolbars already used in chat), let the whole box be resizable (though default to a sane size for new mesages, say four lines 32 chars wide), and have a checkbox for saving the message. If you typed a short message and didn't bother to uncheck or give it a title, you'd notice no difference from the 0.11 series. Similarly, adding the ability to right click with a rename/ delete from your history from the Set Status Message button would be a welcome subtle feature you didn't have to use. Truthfully if my skills were better I'd fire up QT designer and try to do some mockups, but hopefully my description might allay some fears if not help inspire some devs. A good optional addition would be a set of away message controls in the away tab of Behavior which basically repeat the functionality described above but put it all in one window for both convenience and the fact some people actually come up with a number of potential away messages at once. It would be nice to be able to load them up and view past messages in entirety without actually going away. Remember, this isn't GNOME, we can have more than one way to do something, and have it be a good thing. Sorry for the rant. As far as the persistent away message bug, if you have a number I'll go vote for that feature also. Created attachment 22942 [details]
Patch for editing previous away message, and copy sombody's away message
usage:
in kopete source directory:
patch -p1 < path_to_patchfile
*** Bug 94486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Kopete in KDE 4.1 includes a flexible status manager. |