From: Ka-Hing C. <ja...@ja...> - 2004-10-15 02:40:30
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On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 13:10 -0400, Sean Egan wrote: > There are a few glitches with "Automatically expand contacts," but it > would probably be better to fix the glitches and ditch the option, > then to keep the option to work around the glitches. Also, this is > currently the only place the Contact feature is named in the Gaim UI, > I believe. I think fixing it is good, if it can be fixed. But until it is fixed, let's keep the option. > Conversations > ========= > Remove "Show buttons as," default to "none." I'm a fan of the more > minimalistic interface we've been going for, and I think people would > adjust to the removed buttons. We would need to ask an accessibility > person if removing the Send button would be problematic, though. Even > if it is, we could keep the send button, and ditch the other buttons > and kill the preference. What about the button bar on the buddy list? Do we want them? > Remove "Send unknown slash commands as messages." I'm not sure what I > think of the whole "slash" commands deal. They're really only > incredibly useful in IRC and other protocols where people are used to > them as well as giving plugins a convienient way to interact without > UI, but they're inheritly not easily discoverable and can probably be > confusing to someone not familiar with IRC. That said, we should kill > the option and default to "yes." I think we should kill the whole slash command thing except on protocols that make sense of them. > I still support removing "Show IMs and chats in tabbed windows" and > defaulting to "yes," but I know I'll never get that through committee. > Can we kill "Tab placement" and choose an appropriate place to default > to (top or bottom, most likely. I use bottom, but I'd say "top" might > be better). I know at least one GTK theme that doesn't render tabs correctly unless it's on top. I don't know if that's a concern though. The theme is Milk. > Remove "Highlight misspelled word," default to "./configure > --disable-gtkspell" if you don't want this ;). What about put the option in the right click menu of the area? > Remove the "Ignore" preferences, default to "no," make them > per-conversation preferences that get saved for future sessions. I > think the case is much more likely that there are a handful of people > with uber-obnoxious formatting that would cause people to turn these > on than someone wanting the preference global. Isn't there some win32 crash related to fonts? > Shortcuts > ====== > Kill the whole tab, default all to "yes," except "Ctrl-number inserts > smileys" because it only inserts default AIM smileys and I'm sure > there's no good way (apart from, I suppose, setting shortcuts in a > theme) to change that. Regardless, I think RobFlynn is the only > person who actually uses those shortcuts. Most of these preferences > were from the days where these shortcuts conflicted with window > manager or other global shortcuts. I think shortcuts have pretty much > been standardized and we shouldn't have a problem as long as we don't > touch Alt at all. Can anyone provide more insight on this? As long as I can use emacs-style keybinding I have no problem with it. > Network > running, this is a Good Thing. GNOME also has system-wide proxy > preferences; we should use the same method to remove these if GNOME is > running and retrieve the correct values with gconf-tool2 if available. Given that sometimes different proxy is needed for different applications, I think it's a bad idea. (For example, I need to use a proxy provided by my university's library to access certain materials, but I am not sure if that proxy will let IM go through.) > Away Messages > =========== > Gone. No matter what. These aren't even actually preferences. What will be replacement for editing away messages then? Or should they be ignored for now until later? -khc |