[Gaim-patches] [ gaim-Patches-1222650 ] small & useful buddylist tweaks (more Yahoo-like)

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Patches item #1222650, was opened at 2005-06-17 14:18
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Submitted By: Gabbath (gabbath)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: small & useful buddylist tweaks (more Yahoo-like)

Initial Comment:
I diffed against official release 1.3.1 because i
couldn't get cvs to work. very sorry, but it's a very
small patch for gtkblist.c

Changes:

src/gtkblist.c -> added ctrl+h toggle for showing
offline contacts or not
-> changed the status message length to 40 instead of
just 20 (ok, 40 may be a little too much, but 30-35 is
really okay)
-> changed buddy list small icon view to format "buddy
- status", with status grayed out and buddy name bolded
if online (bold+dim if idle... if checked in prefs of
course) - very very similar to yahoo messenger's buddy list

Description:

uh, i'm too much of a yahoo user to not do this. but i
think it's really useful. i've always liked a compact
list, without buddy icons. but in small view i couldn't
see my buddies' statuses. so i did this. i also made
the status text longer because it was a bit short imho...

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>Comment By: Gabbath (gabbath)
Date: 2005-06-19 10:03

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uh, text got deleted just before i wanted to send:
1. Agreed, I had no preference for CTRL+H, just wanted a
shortcut and yahoo messenger suggested that one... so CTRL+O
it is :)
2. 40 is a bit long, but 30 is really OK. It's not critical
info, but I just found myself hovering over the buddylist
and waiting for tooltips to appear so I'm guessing it should
be a little longer. Besides, lots of people display the song
from winamp in yahoo messenger and with 20 chars you just
see the artist :P
3. Agree here too. Didn't really like the bold, but those
dim icons are a bit hard to tell apart, so i thought the
text should be somewhat different too.

In conclusion, here's a new diff for gtkblist, with CTRL+O,
30 chars and no bold (aah, much better). But still, the
status showing in both big & small view should be a good
idea (actually this was one thing that bugged me with gaim
as i liked small view but wanted to also see my friends'
statuses)

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Comment By: Bleeter Yaluser (bleeter)
Date: 2005-06-19 08:08

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A few comments:
1. CTRL+O is mapped for showing offline buddies in HEAD. I suggest leaving CTRL+H alone, as H would tend to infer (H)elp. It'd be best if you just prepare a backport of the HEAD cvs code, rather than have different code.

2. Why is 20 insufficient? What critical infomation might one miss between chars 20-40?

3. 'Offline' status is indicated by a different protocol icon (in Y!'s case, the Y! happy face with a  'no entry' type indicator over it). As this icon is not used to indicate any form of online buddy, I don't see the need for the additional hacking you've done.

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Comment By: Gabbath (gabbath)
Date: 2005-06-18 09:05

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i made online buddies bold so that you can tell dimmed idle
buddies from offline buddies. if anyone has a better idea
for this, feel free to tell me.

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