[Pidgin] #5279: [Feature Request] Mass Invite to chatrooms

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#5279: [Feature Request] Mass Invite to chatrooms
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 Reporter:  Henfap                 |        Owner:  deryni      
     Type:  enhancement            |       Status:  new         
Milestone:                         |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.4.0                  |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  MASS INVITE CHAT ROOM  |  
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Comment(by nagelp):

 Another aspect: It's currently '''not''' possible to invite multiple
 buddies '''at the same time'''. With the current design, you can only
 invite buddies one by one. And while they are slowly joining in and start
 talking - maybe wondering why the user who invited them doesn't even
 answer - the user is still busy inviting others, typing in names like mad
 (or dragging and dropping them into the input field from the buddy list,
 if he figured out that's even possible)...

 I see three ways of improving the invitation process:

 1) Moving buddies from the buddy list directly to the chatroom userlist
 could trigger an invitation - so the buddy list (which can be sorted and
 arranged as the user pleases) would be the "chooser". After this drag &
 drop action, the pre-filled invitation dialog (like it is now) could pop
 up. The user could optionally enter a message and then press the Invite
 button. This doesn't solve the "concurrency" problem though, because the
 buddy list doesn't allow for multiple selection (at least not currently) -
 it's just a shortcut, making inviting multiple buddies a little less
 painful.

 2) The invitation dialog could have one of those widgets where you have
 all available items (--> online buddies) in a list-box on the left, and an
 empty list-box on the right. You can select as many as you want in the
 left list-box (= multi-select list-box) and then press the -> arrow button
 between the two list-boxes to add them to the right list-box (at the same
 time they disappear from the left list-box). It's often used when
 customising toolbars.[[BR]]
 With this method, also the problem of "concurrency" would be solved. After
 choosing the buddies and adding them to the right list-box, the user could
 press the "Invite" button, and they would all get the invitation at the
 same time (and the user would be free to start chatting immediately).

 3) 1 + 2 could be combined - the buddies could either be chosen from the
 left (multi-select) list-box, or could be dragged from the buddy list and
 dropped into the right list-box (one by one). I think this would be the
 best way.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5279#comment:9>
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