New ideas for the presence plasmoid

[Francesco Nwokeka]

On Thursday 26 May 2011 15:45:31 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 15:40, Francesco Nwokeka <
> 
> francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> > 
> >        I'm writing to talk to you about an idea[1] given by Lukas on my
> > 
> > blog.
> 
> Very nice mockup! Say thank you to him :P
> 
> > As you can see in his
> > mokup he divided the panel into two parts. On the left my plasmoid (sort
> > of) and on the right a
> > panel displaying the last conversations with the user's contacts.
> > 
> > Let's take a look at the right panel.
> > 
> > What I would like to do with this panel is display the last line of text
> > sent by a contact. No need
> > for titles. Only the contact avatar + last message would be displayed.
> > Next to that a "reply"
> > button. If the user clicks the "reply" button, a text-chat-ui will open
> > up with that user and the
> > notification in the presence plasmoid would dissapear.
> 
> As for the avatar only - don't forget you can have people with no avatars
> or (less likely though) people with same avatars, in that case, you need
> to make distinction between those. Also it would be cool if you could
> reply in-place. Sort of quick-reply and next to that text-edit would be a
> button for full conversation window.
> 
> > The approver wouldn't need to change as it only shows the last message in
> > a notification area and
> > asks the user if he/she wants to start a conversation. If the approver
> > isn't clicked, this message
> > will be stored in a data-engine that acts as a textobserver listing the
> > last lines sent by a contact
> > for all the user's accounts.
> 
> If the history will be stored in Nepomuk, there's no need for a
> textobserver as you can get the data directly from Nepomuk.
> 
> > What do you guys say? Any observations? Further ideas?
> 
> Go for it!
> 
> --Marty
> 
> > Francesco

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