[BUG325071] Ideas for reworking the UI for the friendslist

[Daniel Kreuter]

Hi,

yeah this should work best I think.
The check should occur once the user leaves the lineedit to provide feedback as soon as possible.

Kind regards,

Daniel

> Am 15.01.2014 um 08:32 schrieb Mehrdad Momeny <mehrdad.momeny at gmail.com>:
> 
> I think it will make the GUI odd to have a listview and forward/backward button to lookup for someone's username to DM him.
> 
> Another Idea came to my mind is having a LineEdit with completion of user names, i.e. when user starts to write the receiver's name, we'll show a list of possible receivers from friends list.
> And another check before sending to make sure the entered name is in friends list, and notify him if not.
> And you can set the line edit's tooltip to something like: "Enter recipient username"
> This way I think the GUI will be less cluttered. and since we have a similar behavior in compose widget which complete other people's username. it won't be anything new or unexpected to users.
> 
> Regards,
> Mehrdad
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> while thinking of how to fix this bug I came up with an idea how to rework the UI a bit.
>> 
>> I'm thinking of the dropdown list with 5000+ friends in it and finding the right person I want to send a PM, not very great because you'll propably searching too long (don't know how realistic such big lists are because mine are < 100).
>> 
>> A way I came up with while reading a blog post written by Aaron Seigo a few days ago was, to switch from dropdownlist to a listview and add pagination to it. The list would contain only 100 friends per page and the user would be able to switch between pages using two buttons (forward and back). I don't know exactly how this will look like but I wanted to ask for feedback before starting to hack on the UI first.
>> 
>> This would actually avoid writing a thread for fetching every friend at once because we would only need to update (and propably cache I think) the ones needed next.
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
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