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

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

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 20:52 -0400, Etan S. C. Reisner wrote:
> I think that going the original ICQ client route of creating a whole bunch
> of emblems for different events and sticking them all on the docklet icon
> is rather bad route to take and that the current 'icon flashes on new
> messages' is more than enough, adding other things is just going to get
> complicated.

Not an incredibly important feature, but I based this suggestion on
existing behaviour I just noticed this morning.
If gaim has a message for me it flashes a plain tray icon, if there's a
new conversation waiting for a tab to open it seems to flash the icon
with an envelope emblem on it.


> I *hate* this idea (no offense to you Andy) 
LOTS taken - I slaved over a hot GIMP for seconds to make that! lol ;)

> it is an immense abuse of the
> conversation window to my mind. The linkifying of urls is one thing,
> because that is purely the simplifying of the normal copy and paste action
> for links (and to be honest, personally if I could turn it off I probably
> would) but this idea completely changes the idea of what is involved in a
> conversation, what clickable items in conversations can do, etc.
That's probably down to personal taste. I like to keep stuff simple
also.

> Not to mention that I happen to think the mockup looks terrible, but
> that's entirely a side point.
Okay now you're just getting personal ;) It's just a rough mock up lol


> Adding a menutray icon for a pending file transfer on the other hand is
> not a particularly bad idea, if subtle and only sort of helpful.
I'd be equally as happy with that. I only suggested a combination of;
 1. the tray icon.
 2. the sound prompt
 3. the in window accept/reject dialogue
;to cover all bases as some users do not have a tray in which to display
an icon. I only recently added one to my Gnome panel. Previous to that I
was quite a tray Luddite. But the little flashy man in Gaim has turned
me.