Own typing indication

[David Balazic]

Etan Reisnerwrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:40:07AM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > This just happened to me in a MSN conversation:
> >  - I type a message (looking at my keyboard)
> >  - I press ENTER
> >  - I look at the screen
> >
> > And my message was not anywhere. I thought it's the focus problem
> > again, so I retyped the message and sent it again.
> >
> > Then after a few moments, both messages appeared in the 
> conversation.
> >
> > The problem: after pressing ENTER to send message, it disappears
> > >From the typing area, but does not appears in the 
> conversation area.
> > For a few moments (that can be several seconds, I gues it depends
> > On netwrok conditions) the message is lost, at least it appears like
> > That for the user.
> >
> > Please do something about this. Either the message should appear
> > Instantly or some special hint should be displayed, that the message
> > Is "pending" or similar.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > David
> >
> > PS: I use 2.4.0 on Windows XP.
> 
> On protocols that send the message back to you (which I'm assuming MSN
> does) displaying the message before we hear back from the server isn't
> really the right thing to do, imagine the case where the 
> message triggers
> an error, or is silently dropped by the server (which MSN 
> likes to do for
> some messages) you are then presented with a scenario where 
> you have told
> the user it was sent correctly but now need to rescind that 
> indication and
> present them with an error, as opposed to being able to 
> simply not display
> the sent message and instead display the error.
> 
> That being said, I am open to suggestions that will satisfy 
> both parts of
> this.

Simple ;-)

After user sends the message, display a "Message pending/processing"
note,
similar to the typing notification. When the message arrived,
Remove the notification and show the real text (or the error, if any).

Regards,
David