Re: [Licq-devel] [PATCH] enhancing chatmode messageview

[Jonas J. <jb...@kn...>]

On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 13:27, Thomas Reitelbach wrote:
> Before i applied your patch, i got one message after the other, i had to press 
> "next" to get the next message.
> 
> But now all messages appear at once in the same window, i have to scroll up to 
> read them one by one while scrolling down. This is no nice behaviour :(

Like you say, it's a feature, not a bug :-). If a person writes 10 (or
just 3) messages and it's something important, I'll usually read some of
the messages more than once, e.g. if I need to reply to each one
seperately. This is where the new chatmode wins big time, because it's
much easier to scroll back up to look at old messages than to use the
tiny scrollbar to dig through the messages in the preview list where you
can only read the first line of each message until you click it.
In short, it's exactly the same advantages as when you talk in chatmode
while online.

OTOH, if each message just needs to be read once and then discarded, the
old system wins, but IMO the difference isn't big enough to justify
keeping the old behavior. You can just turn off chatmode in the options.

/Jonas Jensen