I think it's a good idea to replace the popup/message boxes into notifications. I said notifications, not a full plasmoid, basically because 2 things: - We don't want to depend on Plasma (e.g. a XFCE might want to use Kopete). - We are already using KNotification for that and works great. Plus it's being integrated with other desktop notification layers.
I can understand that you want to have some integration with plasma. I think we already have some, at least to see who is connected and so, never used myself so that's all I can say about it. I'm afraid that here you would end up by creating a new interface for Kopete using plasma and I'm not sure you want to do that. Thanks, Aleix 2009/8/25 Björn Ruberg <bjo...@ruberg-wegener.de> > Hello, > > I have some suggestions for enhancing kopete, that I want to implement > myself. > But before I start I want to talk back with you whether they are wanted. > > I find kopete being not very well integrated into kde4 - although it is > part of > kde. I'm the most unsatisfied with its notifications. The "connection lost" > notification is an ugly white tooltip poping up somere (at least for me). > It > looks as if it is from kde3 times. I suggest using the new kde4 > notification > system for that. > > That's a small one but I still have one "big" suggestion. There is that > notification popup when you recive a message. It shows the message and > gives > you some buttons to handle it. > It's a nice feature ... but it could do much more. I'm annoied by the > following: > - I have to react on this popup. I have to click it away or open a chat > window. It does not disappear after some time. (still the case with kde > 4.3? > - I cannot react on the message displayed directly. Instead I have to open > the > oldstyle chat window and change my focus to it. (When I click on the > notification button the window will appear somewhere else on the screen. I > don't like that) > > In conclusion, this nice little notification is not of much use. I can read > the > message I got - but I can do that in the chat window too. And this chat > window > I have to open anyway when I want to answer. > > I think kopete should start to use plasma! Plasma can do more. My vision is > to > make a Plasma::Extender (or Plasma::Dialog) out of this notification. > Moreover > I want to add a textedit to it, so you can directly type an answer to a > recieved message. Moreover I want a timer of 20 seconds or so. If I don't > type > an answer after that period I probably don't want to. The kopete icon will > stilly notify me of the unanswered message. > One additional effect of using Plasma::Extender: > The user can drag the chat directly onto his desktop and chat from there. > > So, that's my main idea. From my point of view it should not be too hard to > implement (have already written a plasmoid) and can still make its way into > kde 4.4. > > So, what do you think of it? And can you give me some technical hints? What > do > I have to keep in mind? And if you can sketch an implementation (where to > place the code, what existing classes do I have to use) for me, I could > work > faster. > > Regards, > > Björn > _______________________________________________ > kopete-devel mailing list > kopete-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel >
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