Re: [Gaim-devel] small blist view prefs

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:41:43PM -0400, Nathan Walp wrote:
> I want warning gone from the core entirely.  Its a stupid idea, and even
> if it weren't, it's an AIM-specific idea, and has no place in the core.
> 
> Anyone else agree, or am I alone on this?

Presumably we would need *some* way to display it, but as the
protocol can manipulate the tooltip and user info content, that
should be sufficent.  I'll second this proposal.

luke

> 
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:08:33PM -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > Cae noticed today that when you shrink the horizontal width of the
> > buddy list, the screennames will be elipsized down to uselessness and
> > a horizontal scroll bar will never be used.
> > 
> > In any sane case, this is more or less what we would want, a marginal
> > shortening of a few screennames is better than introducing a
> > horizontal scroll bar.  But I think it might be valuable to introduce
> > a minimum size to the screenname.  This would let narrow buddy list
> > fanatics (who, historically, and verifiably in the case of Cae, do not
> > care about idle times or warning levels in the blist) reduce the
> > width, introduce a scroll bar hiding the info they don't care to see
> > anyway, and still have usefully long screennames.
> > 
> > alternately, we could make idle times in the blist optional again.
> > either way, I think warning levels in the blist (at least the small
> > view) should default to "off" not "on."  Originally I didn't care
> > either way, but in light of the fact that they will now cause
> > elipsation, I've changed my mind.
> > 
> > luke
> > 
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