Review Request: Enhance icon behaviour of text ui

[Matt Rogers]

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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. 

So, what is the problem that you're trying to solve? :)

- Matt Rogers


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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