[Konversation-devel] [konversation] [Bug 332439] New: add ability to search/cycle through previous highlights

[Bernd]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332439

            Bug ID: 332439
           Summary: add ability to search/cycle through previous
                    highlights
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: konversation
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: notifications
          Assignee: konversation-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: prof7bit at gmail.com

After a prolonged period of absence while one or more of the highlight
expressions have been triggered there is no easy way (no way at all actually)
to find out what exactly happened, what exactly triggered the highlight.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Join a few crowded channels, setup a few highlight expressions, wait until one
or more of them are triggered, then wait even longer until it has scrolled out
of view and is buried in the noise.
Actual Results:  
The tray icon is blinking but its not giving any clue which highlight in which
channel was triggered, clicking it will present me the konversation window but
the only information are the colored tabs of the channels that contain the
highlights.

Expected Results:  
The following things would help:

* a keyboard shortcut to search backwards (cycle through) the highlights in the
current channel, this could for example even be F3/shift-F3 when the search
expression is empty
* a window similar to URL grabber that lists all highlights and lets me click
them to navigate to the channel window and exact position of the highlight
instantly.
* (optional) more information in the tray icon, maybe a menu that lists all
recent highlights, so I can navigate to the relevant channel and position
instantly.

I'm not sure whether this could also be implemented as a plugin or an external
program, it would need to be able to remote control the UI (navigate to a given
line in a given window) or even create its own (pseudo-)channel window to
emulate something similar to the URL grabber and then of course it also needs
to be able to make these entries clickable to link them back to the original
channels where they came from. I don't know how powerful the API is in this
regard to implement this without ugly hacks but even if it needed ugly
undocumented hacks and worked somehow it would already be an improvement over
the current situation until its properly implemented in konversation directly.

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