Review Request 117809: Don't disable input box when disconnected

[David Edmundson]

> On April 28, 2014, 12:47 p.m., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Great that you are fixing this!
> > From a usability perspective, the better way to show the message would be to display a KMessageWidget inside the chat window. That way the association between action and message is clear (http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/MessageWidget).
> > Also, I'd change the message to "Your message cannot be sent because the account [accountname] is offline. Please try again when the account is online."
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> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     Additionally, we could just offer to bring the account online?

Typically this happens because I got disconnected by external factors (i.e dodgy network). For me anyway.
We could see if the requestedPresence is offline and if so offer that. 


- David


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On April 27, 2014, 9:26 p.m., Ahmed I. Khalil wrote:
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> (Updated April 27, 2014, 9:26 p.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy.
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> Bugs: 320385
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320385
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> Repository: ktp-text-ui
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> Description
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> Don't disable the input box when disconnected and the user sends a message a status message is added saying "Your message was not sent because you are offline" and the message box is not cleared.
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> Diffs
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>   lib/chat-widget.cpp c4f2ea5 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117809/diff/
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> Testing
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> Turned the connection offline, tried to send a message, a status message is added as expected. Then turned the status to online the message is still there and when pressed return the message is sent normally.
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> Thanks,
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> Ahmed I. Khalil
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