Normal text chat

[neko259]

Now the chat consists of a table-like messages and nicks. This adds several problems:

1. The larger even one of the nicks the more you need to strech the window, because nick column is taking most of the place even if other nicks are small.
2. Unable to copy several messages
3. /me command gives asterisk instead of a nick which looks very strange in the table layout.

Most of the XMPP and IRC clients use plain text chat with syntax coloring. I think this is the best solution.

[naxuroqa]

1. You are right, this can be solved by shorting/ellipsizing the names (see Ui Mockups nurupo/ProjectTox-Qt-GUI#12)
2. agreed, this currently sucks a bit.
3. The asterisks is reflecting the way irc actions are displayed (displaying your username instead of "me" is on the todo list)

Will look into gtktextview again. If it works out, I will replace the current widget for displaying text with it.

[neko259]

The asterisks is reflecting the way irc actions are displayed (displaying your username instead of "me" is on the todo list)

Yes, but in IRL or XMPP they look like "* mynick", not * in the nick column and nick in the chat column. IMO, but this doesn't look nice.

[naxuroqa]

[neko259]

Oh, never seen such clients :) Mine just shows plain text "[11:10:15] *nekorin is testing" for "/me is testing"

[neko259]

This is how XMPP clients usually display chats.

[naxuroqa]

I added a very basic version of your proposed changes. You can test it by supplying "--textview" as command line option to venom.

[neko259]

In private chats everything is normal, in group chats /me shown nothing and simple messages don't show my nick. Some other nicks are empty too, some not.

[neko259]

In the console output, the nicks that are empty in the GUI are empty too. No clue why can this be.

[naxuroqa]

There is some groupchat bug currently being resolved. I just tested it in groupchat with syncbot and it seems to work fine.

[neko259]

Yes, by now it seems to work fine.

[neko259]

Other bug: setting focus to the textview makes it scroll to the top. If you are at the bottom of the chat, then click on edit field and enter some text, then click on a chat -- you are at the beginning of the chat history.

[nurupo]

linux-anime@conference.jabber.ru

Как мне пропатчить KDE2 под FreeBSD? : )

Oh, never seen such clients :) Mine just shows plain text "[11:10:15] *nekorin is testing" for "/me is testing"

Most IRC clients do that, actually.