Le Tuesday 25 August 2009, Björn Ruberg a écrit : > 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.
Cool. > 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. Yes, code that use KPassivePopup should use KNotification instead. > 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? This should be configurable in the knotify or plasma config. I think some people prefer having a notification that stays. (this is the difference between the queued, and not queued) > - 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) This looks like a bug. clicking on the button shoud get you the focus. Maybe some window manager focus stealing prevention? > 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 you are being hit by some bug and small annoyance that could easily be fixed. The whole plasma stuff you describe bellow seems to be overkill for solving this problem. At least, as Aleix already reply, we must not depend on plasma and continue using KNotification > 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. This applet could be done using the kopete dbus interface. I think there is already some people working on a plasma applet that integrates Kopete into plasma using dbus. It can be nice to have, but is more a workaround than a nice solution. Ideally, the current notification should be improve. > 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. For the ugly messages, try to replace the call to KPassivePopup with KNotification call. For the focus problem, i don't know. For the fact that popup doesn't close on timeout, it is because thay use the Persisistent flag in KNotification. But maybe even with this flag, youc could add a way to specfy that you want a timeout anyway in the KNotificationConfigWidget -- Olivier _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
