Review Request: Enhance icon behaviour of text ui

Mon Jan 30 16:12:13 UTC 2012

> On Jan. 30, 2012, 3:41 p.m., Matt Rogers wrote:
> > It's not really obvious from your description or the screenshots from kde-usability what the problem is that you're trying to solve with this set of changes. 
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> > So, what is the problem that you're trying to solve? :)

I'll try to summarize the problem: we want to show:

1) Alias of the contact
2) When we have an unread message (or even better the number of unread messages)
3) When contact is typing
4) Status of the contact
And I will add this right now, since I just realized that this information is at the moment completely missing
5) The icon for the protocol account that we are using

We have 2 different use cases

a) single tabbed window
b) multiple tabbed window
(Let's forget about group chats for now)

For single tabbed windows we can put this info in

I) The main window icon + overlays
II) The main window title text

For multiple tabbed window we have

I) The main window icon + overlays
II) The main window title text
III) The tab icon + overlays
IV) The tab text + text colour

So the problems is what to show in each case, and how...

- Daniele Elmo

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On Jan. 28, 2012, 2:30 p.m., Daniele Elmo Domenichelli wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 28, 2012, 2:30 p.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy and David Edmundson.
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> Description
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> We spoke about this some time ago on irc...
> Currently the behaviour of the main icon is not really useful.
> With this patch the icon will change when you receive a message, and it will make it easier to understand that you have an unread message (at the moment if you don't notice the blinking app in the task manager it's not easy to spot)
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> This set of patches do the following (you may agree or disagree with some of them, I'm not really convinced by all of them, so let's discuss it)
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> 1) Main icon is always the same (telepathy-kde) and adds an overlay when a new messages is received
> 2) Tab bar is always shown
> 3) The user icon has an overlay if the user is typing or if there is an unread message (unread takes precedence over typing because I tried with 2 overlays and it looks horrible)
> 4) Give the precedence to new messages over typing for name colour
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> branch is here: http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=clones%2Fktp-text-ui%2Fddomenichelli%2Fktp-text-ui.git&a=shortlog&h=refs/heads/iconEnhancement
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> Diffs
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>   app/chat-window.h 4afa8a1b8d6ee92f75197bf57895f3a57526c516 
>   app/chat-window.cpp 59db66db442dffbb3352ca1c66133f1c461d1b59 
>   lib/chat-widget.cpp 872de0299cd0eb11d61f9bab6ba12fe493336207 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103811/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Daniele Elmo Domenichelli
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