Chat behavior

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:15 PM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Right now, when you receive a chat message (and you don't have tha chat
> > plasmoid ;)) you get a systray message. I don't really like this behavior
> > because it doesn't help much, since you have to click it to know what's
> > going on anyway.
> >
> > I'm sending this e-mail to know what's the idea behind it and see if we
> > could do anything to simplify it.
>
> It has the problem that Plasma notifications don't really make it very
> obvious, and more importantly sometimes it just doesn't bother to show
> our item.
>
> >I guess we could open the chats automatically,
>
> Having a window appear on top of everything you're doing will drive
> you mental. It used to do that when I wrote the text-ui before the
> approver existed. You won't want it, trust me. (remove the approver,
> and try it for a week.)
>
> > if we already have a chat window, at least.
>
> Yeah we could do that.
>
> > What do you think? Is there any use case for the systray icon that I'm
> > missing?
>
> The logic is to not block the user / pop things up randomly in front
> of the screen.
>
> I have draft code that shows icons in the contact list, when you have
> new chats/messages.
> I think this helps to fix it.
>
>
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Aleix
> >
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Hi!
Thanks Daniele and David for your lengthy answers! :)

I think that if we could just open chats when we already have a chat window
that would be a big step forward. It will be as much noise as someone
you're already talking to so it's fine. And it solves the problem of having
to go back to the system tray just to see what someone else wants.

Regarding system notifications, I don't have a problem with it, but maybe
it's because I "live" in master.

Aleix

PS: Danielle about the bugs you posted, I think file transfer handling
should be worked out also, now everything looks slightly disconnected...
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