#9417: Usability Improvement
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Reporter: chjunior | Owner: deryni
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: pidgin (gtk)
Version: 2.5.6 | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Changes (by deryni):
* owner: => deryni
Comment:
I meant "random" in where it scrolled to, not that it scrolled at all, but
I'm not convinced people would make that connection as easily as you think
they would.
I'm also not certain that reverting is better than leaving the new scroll
location, presumably some number of people would want to interact with the
buddy they just added and would therefore get annoyed that we seemingly
helped to scroll to that buddy and then immediately scrolled away.
The counter argument to that is what I've said previously that scrolling
the buddy list out from under people is almost certainly going to annoy
some users as well.
I think the short version of my thinking is that scrolling the buddy list
without obvious direct instructions to do so is likely to be problematic
as well as beneficial, and I'm not sure the benefits outweigh the problems
(especially considering pidgin has never done this before).
I'm still really just not sure that there is a compelling issue that needs
solving here at all, as I indicated before I don't know of any other IM
client software that does this (though I would be more than happy to be
shown some that do) nor am I aware of even a handful of complaints about
this.
A plugin should be able to do this and I would be happy to help with it
should help be needed. If a plugin can't do this currently I would be open
to making it so that they can.
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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9417#comment:14>
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