[Konversation-devel] [Bug 228645] nick selection jumps back and forth

[Eike Hein]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228645


Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Eike Hein <hein kde org>  2010-02-26 18:37:47 ---
Konversation is behaving correctly here on a technological level: IRC is
"server as authority", i.e. Konversation doesn't dictate a nick change to the
server, it asks to be given a different nick, and only when the server
announces in response that one's nick has changed can Konversation assume that
different nick to be its own. The corollary to that is that a server can also
refuse such a request (e.g. because the desired nickname is already in use), so
Konversation can't just assume it will go through and show the chosen nick in
the combobox.

Since most users are unaware of that technological background, though, it might
be a good idea to introduce a delay in the combobox switching that would mask
what is going on to optimize for the case in which a nick change is successful.
I.e. there would be no forth-and-back because the chosen nick would stick
around in the combobox long enough until the server announces the nick change,
at which point the combobox would show it anyway.

The downside to a naive implementation of that would be the combobox lagging
behind the chat text view in case the server announces a refusal to implement
the nick change (which would be shown in the chat text view). Known refusal
messages (e.g. the standardized message for the desired nick already being in
use) would have to feed back into the combobox and cause an immediate reset to
the previous nick, adding considerable complexity to the implementation, and
unknown refusal messages would still retain the lag problem. This might still
be a worthwhile enterprise as time permits, however.

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