Re: [Gaim-devel] Buddy List Hierarchy?

[Torrey M. <Torrey.McMahon@Sun.COM>]

More below ...

Etan Reisner wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Torrey McMahon wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> The feature where you can organize multiple contacts under a primary
>> contact. If I do a right click on an entry in the buddy list and select
>> "Expand" I get the original account tabbed over, for lack of a better
>> term, and placed under a new group of sorts.
>>
>> The odd behavior I'm seeing could just be how the behavior of this
>> feature is meant to be but...here goes...
>>
>>    * When I first expand the contact the contact gets shifted to the
>>      right and placed under a new entity I'll call a new heading as I'm
>>      not sure what else to call it.
>>    * The new heading has a cool new gaim icon and has a "-" next to the
>>      icon to collapse it.
>>    * I can then move other contacts underneath the new heading.
>
> This 'heading' is called a contact, it is designed to be used as a 
> logical grouping of multiple buddies that all represent the same human 
> being. (Not as secondary group levels.)


Gotcha. Thats what I am or was using it as.

>
>> Here's where things get odd
>>
>>    * If I hit the "-" box the box goes away and I lose the cool new
>>      icon. I would think a "+" box would appear, the cool icon would
>>      stay, and I could just collapse the list. I have to use right
>>      click "Expand" to get the list back. How do I know other contacts
>>      are under there from a visual inspection?
>
> The point is that you shouldn't need to know at a glance whether there 
> are other buddies online in the contact, since all you really care 
> about knowing is whether the Person is online.


Not always. In some cases I want to know if they are logged in under a 
certain account. Either for testing purposes or if I want to use a 
certain service to contact them. For example, I often talk to co-workers 
on their public accounts but when work things come up we switch to a 
internal jabber server.

I think I am looking for a folder to hold contacts as opposed to the 
current method of using contacts that are linked underneath each other. 
I could use a separate group for each but....well.....I'll think about 
it. :)