Some suggestions on the infopane of conversation

[Kevin M Stange]

Etan Reisner wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:11:08AM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
>> On 6/27/07, Ka-Hing Cheung <khc at hxbc.us> wrote:
>>>>  * The status icon goes back in the tab.
>> If this is really a deal-breaker, I'm ok bringing it back, although
>> I've come to appreciate it beyond it's original "kill redundancy"
>> intention.
> 
> Despite my earlier indications that I don't really use it much, I find
> myself using it more than I realized I did, mostly in order to glance at
> my IM window to see if someone I was having a conversation with has since
> gone offline without needing to open the buddy list window or actually
> focus my conversation window.
> 
> So I think I am still in the bring-the-status-icons-back camp. Plus if we
> do this it means we can use that space in the infopane for the protocol
> icon/emblem/etc..
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>>  * The protocol-icon replaces the status-icon in the infopane.
>> I'm guessing this was an attempt to kill redundancy. I'm not so
>> convinced that redundancy is a huge problem.
> 
> As mentioned above we could do this to appease people who want it back
> while simultaneously providing extra information and not duplicating
> information. All that being said I don't think it really much matters
> either way.
> 
>>>>  * The status message/chat topic goes to the right of the screenname
>>>>    instead of below.
>> What was the rationale of this change? You seem to still have enough
>> room for two lines.
> 
> This I don't think I like at all, the visual distinction of the new line
> is useful for telling them apart above and beyond the formatting
> differences.
> 
>>>>  * The tab is displayed even when you have only one tab.
>>>>  * You cannot drag-n-drop the infopane for anything.
>> A few people have mentioned "widget jumping" as the reason they prefer
>> always having tabs. Lots of people think it's silly having tabs when
>> there's only one conversation window is open. I'm impartial (really!).
>> Is "widget jumping" really an issue? I can't honestly imagine it is.
> 
> Widget-jumping aside (and yes I do find it annoying but have been tending
> to always have more than one window open lately and as such haven't
> noticed it much) I've been finding lately that when I close multiple tabs
> at once I always use the tab X button instead of the window X button or my
> wm:s close_frame binding. Given that the fact that the last tab has no
> such button means I need to stop clicking and either move the mouse or
> switch to the binding. That's been a tad annoying recently.
> 

I actually went to do that today and ran into the same annoyance.  I
imagine if I hadn't gotten used to the idea of the close button being
there, it wouldn't be a problem, but I've adopted the same convention
for firefox tabs, for example, for the same reason... consistency.

Kevin

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