Re: [Gaim-devel] Usability issue and suggestion: remote file transfer requests

[Andy <spi...@in...>]

All my suggestions bar one are based on current gaim behaviour. 

> 1) What do you do when you do not have a conversation open with a
>    user?

What currently happens if you have the option "Preferences/ Hide new IM
conversations / Always" turned on. Is instead of a new window popping up
when a new message comes in, gaim makes a sound (if you've set one) and
flashes the tray icon with a little envelope emblem on it. If you then
click on that tray icon it opens the new window with the message or adds
a new tab to the current window if you have one open already depending
on your preferences.

I suggest the same behaviour for incoming files, with possibly a
different emblem on it (a document emblem perhaps?)


> 2) I personally tend to ignore new messages most of the time, until I
>    am ready to deal with them.  I don't get file transfers, so I don't
>    have a good feeling about this, but do people tend to expect to be
>    notified of these in a relatively short period of time?  (I would
>    suspect yes, since inattention leads to failed transfers.) Does
>    this mean some additional notification would be in order.

Me also, that's why I have the annoyances set off. I get a sound and a
flashing tray icon then I deal with it in my own time. File transfers do
time out. I don't believe that additional notification is needed other
than the ability to set a different sound and the different tray icon
emblem I mentioned above.

3) We currently don't really allow a way to modify existing text; this
   probably would have to change, if the conversation became more
   dialog-like.  What should this be like?

Okay mock ups are in order as a picture is worth a thousand words an
all... So as not to spam the list with files go here to see a mock up of
what I'm proposing  http://users.on.net/~c0pkf48/Mockup.png

This is what I'd consider the "easy" route as it uses aspects of the
interface that are already there. That is, conversation text and URL
style text.

The other route would be to write some widgets to the bottom of the
window somehow.