Bug 308059 - KTP should have a Treeview alternative for the tabs in the text-ui.
Summary: KTP should have a Treeview alternative for the tabs in the text-ui.
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: telepathy
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: text-ui (show other bugs)
Version: 0.5.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: Future
Assignee: Telepathy Bugs
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: 298961 332254 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-10-08 08:06 UTC by Jussi Schultink
Modified: 2014-03-17 16:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Jussi Schultink 2012-10-08 08:06:34 UTC
Tabs in text-ui should be able to be set so that it is displayed in treeview also. 

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2012-10-08 11:00:12 UTC
May I ask why would you rather see a treeview instead of simple list?
Comment 2 Jussi Schultink 2012-10-15 10:21:44 UTC
Sure, a treeview would be useful if i have different networks/connections configured. so:

- Jabber (jussi01@gmail.com)
 *Jim
 *John 
 *James
-Jabber (jussitestaccount@gmail.com)
 *friend
 *friend1
 *friend2

Etc. Feel free to correct me if it wouldnt work like that. :) In anycase, Id like to have a listed channels/rooms/conversations thing, as opposed to tabs.
Comment 3 Martin Klapetek 2012-10-15 12:34:41 UTC
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for explaining. It *might* work exactly like you propose with the tree and something very similar was suggested recently on our mailing list. However there are some design issues which I'm still not particulary happy about and that is if you have only two-three contacts you're chatting with, there will be only two-three "tabs" on the side and the rest will be a grayspace (see http://i.imgur.com/kFrQY.png for a very bad illustration).

Nevertheless I do agree that having standard tabs is not very usable for having more than three chats and that we need to think of something better.
Comment 4 Jussi Schultink 2012-12-13 07:44:22 UTC
Yeah, I have about 10-20 tabs open normally and its fairly inefficient (you'll notice several of my bugs are about making this more efficient).

One thing  you might want to look at for ideas are the irc clients in KDE - Konversation and quassel both have the ability to have the treeview thing.

Please keep me in the loop whatever solution you decide.
Comment 5 David Edmundson 2013-01-17 13:29:11 UTC
I want to try this, so will do so and make a branch.

We will then test for a week or two, and ask our usability guys. 

If it's amazing, we'll replace the tabs
If it's good, we might make it an option
if it's rubbish and annoying it won't get merged (you could still keep the patch I guess though :) )
Comment 6 David Edmundson 2013-06-24 12:57:14 UTC
*** Bug 298961 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Murz 2013-06-24 13:50:48 UTC
Confirm this issue. Good solution can be multi-row tabs like in QIP: http://images3.download.ru/images/reviews/qip.jpg

Good example how vertical tabs look and works you can see in Firefox extension Tree Style Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

I think that progress in this way is so slow, because Qt didn't have elements for this, so will be good to vote in Qt bugtracker for this feature: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-22488
Comment 8 Murz 2013-07-29 11:41:35 UTC
Other solution for this probjem can be multi-row tabs, here is issue in qt tracker about this: https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-22487
Comment 9 Murz 2013-11-01 07:09:16 UTC
Here you can see an example how we can do this with current QT version: http://www.qtcentre.org/wiki/index.php?title=Customizing_QTabWidget%27s_QTabBar
Comment 10 Martin Klapetek 2013-11-01 11:15:41 UTC
Nice. The third one from left in the upper row could work sensibly, however if the tabs would have too long text in their title, it could look weird.

Worth a try.
Comment 11 Murz 2013-11-01 11:22:00 UTC
> if the tabs would have too long text in their title, it could look weird
About this problem I already create other issue: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326976 :)
Comment 12 Murz 2013-11-01 11:25:52 UTC
Missing vertical tabs with horizontal text in kde telepathy is very large problem for me, because when I open many tabs, I see it like this in Kopete:
http://wstaw.org/m/2011/10/24/plasma-desktopQ19118.jpg
or like this in current KDE Telepathy:
http://i.imgur.com/Zq5XNrE.png

- in both examples tabs are not usable for me...

I use KDE Telepathy from GIT ppa for Ubuntu, so I can help you with debugging and testing. Please report here if you got any progress on this.
Comment 13 Martin Klapetek 2014-03-17 16:07:58 UTC
*** Bug 332254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***