Contact List TODO

[xzekecomax at gmail.com]

On Friday 04 March 2011 12:08:54 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:50, <xzekecomax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I have a few questions. Wouldn't there be a better way of showing a
> > connection
> > status "Connecting", "Disconnecting", etc?
> 
> Yes, I'm working on this right now ;)
> 
> > What about menu bar
> 
> So far I'm trying to avoid menu bar...there's nothing that can't be put
> elsewhere (and to more appropriate place), so I'm planning to leave it out.
> 
> > verboseness of the user information
> 
> Needs to be implemented
> 
> > status bar icon
> 
> What icon? Presence status? Just remember you need to show presence for more
> than one account...I'm currently working on this too.
Well for icon for the status bar, it would just show a status for like, if 1 
account is online, it'd show online even if other's are offline or away or 
something.

Then maybe on the tooltip of the icon, when hover we can show which accounts 
are online/offline, etc.
> 
> > and context menu, the current buttons at
> > the top should be placed in a toolbar or something like that, currently
> > it can
> > not handle "Text only", "Icons only", etc.
> 
> It is a toolbar. But with disabled text next to icons. Even now, with only
> three icons, you'd need veeery large width to display all the icons with
> their text caption. Therefore I disabled it. It's both kind of usability
> issue and I think this one is the lesser evil...
Well this is just my opinion, I honestly harder ever use text on the buttons 
and just show only icons because the text stuff takes up too much space. But 
that's just the way I prefer my applications with toolbars.
> 
> I'm willing to take control of "Add contact context menu" (just give me what
> 
> > should be shown in there and I'll begin writing it), the toolbar
> > suggestion in
> > the previous paragraph and the status bar. If you don't mind.
> 
> Great, the context menu should have actions like "Start text chat", "Start
> audio/video chat" (show only if supported), "Send file..." (if supported),
> "Contact properties" (probably another window, needs to be implemented and I
> suggest to do it as a separate component), "Remove contact.." (with
> confirmation) and then probably some groups handling...did I miss
> something?
> 
> Marty