[sldev] Roadmap: 1.19.0 Viewer

[ordinal.malaprop at fastmail.fm]

Might I respectfully suggest that this major UI change be kept until  
there is a way to set automatic preferences without rewriting and  
recompiling the viewer, and have people be able to change back to the  
previous state easily? I think that an option to turn off group IMs  
for certain groups would be very popular - but people have already  
filtered their groups down, in most cases, to those that they don't  
mind hearing IMs on.

Certainly it will be a pain in the rear end for me - estate problems  
are announced on estate groups - and I don't even have a huge number  
of responsibilities.

On 8 Jan 2008, at 22:12, Jonathan Wolk wrote:

> Mark Burhop wrote:
>> So if I understand, when I log in, I will first need to go to my  
>> groups and add each one to chat.  This will create a tab in my chat  
>> window. Closing the tab will disconnect me from that group so I  
>> need to leave all the tabs open.
> If you want to hear what's going on in each group chat session, then  
> yes.  Actually this behavior exists today with the exception of the  
> first IM.  After that, you need to leave the tab open to hear chatter.
>> If I get an incoming message, I will have to open up this window  
>> (increasing its size horizontally to see all the tabs) to find the  
>> tab that indicates a message just came in.
> You can actually "arrow over" to see more of your tabs without  
> needing to increase the window size (I think).  Or alternatively  
> changes could be made so that the "new IM" button appears if you  
> receive an IM and your communication window isn't opened or  
> maximized (just throwing that idea out there)
>> To avoid this and work as I do today, I can create my own viewer  
>> with some hacks or wait (days? weeks?)  until the server is updated.
> Yup.
>> Surely I've misunderstood.
> You haven't and stop calling me Shirley
>
> -Jonathan
>
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