The Contact List Applet

[Aleix Pol]

Oh! I forgot the questions!
Please note that a big IMHO is implicit in all my answers.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:55 PM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> Contact List Applet
>
> The Contact List applet has been doing nothing for a while now, and
> it's time to get it sorted and finished.
> I want to discuss what we actually want to do. Then once we have a
> general consensus I'll turn it into bugzilla lists and get started on
> it.
>
> Who here currently uses it? I don't really. My preferred method of
> starting chats is homerun via krunner.
>
> So, brainstorming:
>
>  - Should it be a popup-plasmoid so it can be docked in a panel. What
> would the icon be?
>
Definitely yes!
I'd try to merge it with the presence plasmoid. We need a reason for having
them both at the same time on the panel.


>
>  - If it's in a vertical panel that's wide enough should it show the
> list properly?
>
That's easy enough to do, when you have the plasma applet implementation
there you'll figure it out, i'd say.


>
>  - Should it use Plasma icons for presence?
>
Should it be an option not to get integrated?


>
>  - Do we want to have a search bar? Always shown? or with a button to
> toggle it? Or just instantly if you start typing.
>
I'd say let's see prototypes


>
>  - Do we want to show groups? What's a good way to use a TreeView in QML.
>
We can use QML sections. It fits perfectly imho.
Also like I said in my big e-mail, it's an interesting place where to cut
down information and integrate with Activities.


>
>  - Should it have all the different sort/group-by options the real
> contact list has? In a "toolbar"? or in the plasma config?
>
Probably not. If at all, in the plasmoid config.


>
>  - Do we want call/video/send file buttons?
>
We want a good delegate. But you don't want all buttons visible for all the
contacts.
Maybe it also depends on the plasmoid size.
Also we should know how far we want to go with this so that we can say how
far the contact plasmoid has to go.


>
> - Should we have it so that in the config you specify what groups you
> want to show? I think I might use it if I had a list of just people in
> my "friends" group and that's it.
>
Yes I agree, I discussed this above.
Or if you're at the "work" activity, I'd like to have the "bluesystems"
group available.
I guess.



>
>
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Also it would be good to find out more imaginative ways to display
contacts. For example having the name _and_ the photo [1] can be redundant,
so somebody could try different things. In one of the examples for KPeople
that I made, I implemented the contact list in a grid (sweetpeople) where
the name would only be available on hover, since you can already recognize
someone by their picture. What I mean with that is that there's space for
improvement and we should try to go a bit past the "same old".

Maybe...
Or not...
But it should be fun.
And we need KPeople to make it right. :/

Cheers!
Aleix

[1] http://wstaw.org/m/2012/12/19/plasma-desktopuh1788.png
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