On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:07:15PM +0000, Oleg Girko wrote: > Hi! > > The patch attached to this message fixes 2 annoying inconveniences in Kopete > ICQ authorisation request dialog. > > 1. Set wordWrap property of lblRequestReason to true. > > The request reason string can be very long, and without wordWrap set to true > can lead to ridiculously wide dialog window. > > 2. Added "Contact" menu button which invokes contact menu. > > When authorisation request comes, the first question which comes to mind > is "Who is that?". Without this patch there are only two ways to get > requestor's info: use search function of "Add contact" and enter UIN manually > (conveniently, you can't select UIN from text in dialog) or open web browser > and enter manually "http://www.icq.com/UIN";). Both ways are very > inconvenient. > > With this patch a temporary contact is added on arrival of authorisation > request (the same way as when a message from unknown contact is received). > This contact's context menu can be invoked from "Contact" button. > > This is just a minor patch to relieve user interface pain in ICQ protocol > support only. The long-term solution should be a major refactoring of event > handling in Kopete to handle authorisation requests and other special > messages the way uniform with regular messages. > > Popping up dialogs is acceptable only as a result of user's action, not on > asynchronous events like authorisation requests. All asynchronous events > should lead to asynchronous notifications (blinking of tray icon, blinking of > icon in contact list, possibly notification popup near the tray icon which > always disappears in 10 seconds if user does not click it). > > The real window should open only as a result of user's interaction: when user > clicks on a notification popup or blinking icon. If the event is a regular > message, the chat window should open. If it is an authorisation request, an > authorisation dialog should open. > > -- Oleg Girko, http://www.infoserver.ru/~ol/
I'm not sure that I like the use of a temporary contact for this. Why not just add a option that allows the person to view the contact's info right from the dialog box? -- Matt _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
