From: Tim R. <om...@ho...> - 2004-10-15 01:16:54
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Sean Egan wrote: >Interface > Yes, kill the category, its name is too generic to be meaningful anyway. >Perhaps we should remove "Raise window on events" and default to no.=20 >Does anyone really use that feature? > I have a bad feeling some AIM people do and will whine without it. ><snip>"Automatically expand contacts," <snip> > I keep this one off myself, but I don't feel strongly about it. >Remove "Show buddy icons" and "Enable buddy icon animation" and >default to "yes." > I worry about performance issues with this one. >We could probably remove "Show aliases in tabs/titles" and default to >"yes" when we can depend on elipsizing support in gtknotebook > =A1Vive elipsizing! However, if we're removing the button bar too, then Get Info is burried=20 in the menu, and so there's no easy way to tell who the hell just=20 messaged you on MSN. >Remove "use multi-colored screen names in chats" default to "yes."=20 > I'm not a big fan of this, but I could live with it. >I'm pretty sure I included this in the original prefslash, but I need >someone to remind me why it was vetoed. > I think several people said over my dead body. >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). > Or maybe it was this one that got the over my dead body responce. I see=20 no reason to remove this. The code for it is part of GtkNotebook anyway. > If GNOME duplicates the other options on this tab, we should >naturally do the same. Also, we should find out if there's a good way >to do the same things for KDE preferences. > Or maybe someone should xdg the crap out of those. >"Queue new messages when away" can probably be removed and defaulted >to "no," and replaced with a more robust, queueing system for all >messages. =20 > I had some ideas for this. But no code. >Protocols > As each protocol only has a couple prefs, it seems to me like the scarce = resource that pref slots are, are plentiful in prpl land, and thus even=20 a couple of stupid ones can use the slots. --Tim |