Two typing notifications don't make sense. What do you think?

Festival.Star festival.star at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 3 14:39:01 EST 2008


Etan Reisner schrieb:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:13:46PM +0100, Festival.Star wrote:
>   
>> Yeah there would be something that wouldn't be that noisy. You could
>> take the old typing notification graphic and put it into the toolbar of
>> the message window. (next to the smileys) That would make the whole
>> thing look more integrated. It is right that the new notification gets
>> into your view everytime you look at the window. But it makes me always
>> think a message pops up when the notification starts.
>> So it would be really cool to reconsider the position of the
>> notification. Don't get me wrong about that criticism I really like
>> Pidgin and the appreciate the work you do.
>>
>> Regards!
>>     
>
> While putting it in the formatting toolbar is certainly an interesting
> idea, and not one I would have thought of, I'm not sure it is a good idea,
> for a variety of reasons. First off, the toolbar tends to house buttons
> that indicate state and not random transient icons. Second, many people
> (myself included) turn off the formatting toolbar and thus would be unable
> to see that notification icon.
>
> What are you doing that the new typing notification is apparent and
> distracting enough to be a problem?
>
>     -Etan
>   
The problem is that it looks like a new message when the notification
pops up. From my point of view the lable notification would be enough.
The moste important thing for me would be to keep the notification out
of the message window. Let me think a few hours about another position
if there have to be to notifications.

Regards!




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