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Hi was just wondering if there is a way to add user if typing notifications to a message view. I haven't seen it done before in adium just wondering if it was possible. Im talking about something like the little ... that appear in ichat

I don't think it's possible using WebKit, but maybe I'm wrong

since proteus is doing exactly that, it should be possible, right?!

I don't think we should add this.

I think it's reasonable to add, but not in the 1.0 timeframe.

well, actually i don't like it either. i think the orange contact background and the pencil symbol in the tab look much nicer than 3 points in a bubble...

Plus, I'm paranoid and need a distinction between 'typing' and 'entered text'

For those of use that don't use tabs its kinda needed. Design wise wouldn't it make more sense, I mean your eyes are on the message view area as your typing or in a conversation so shouldn't information of this nature be displayed there.

I'm not saying that it should always be .... or even always be on, this should be up to the message view developer.

I agree with medicine. The message view should show things that could have an impact on what you might be typing to your contact. For example, if they put up an away message or sign off, this is shown in the message view, and you see this and might decide to hold off on trying to IM them. Likewise, if they start typing, you might want to wait and see what they have to say. Thus, the typing indicator shows information immediately relevant to the conversation. Further, typing isn't really a "status" like Away, Offline, etc.; it's almost more of an event; it's something that can suddenly happen that can change the content or nature of your IMs to a person.

medicine wrote:I'm not saying that it should always be .... or even always be on, this should be up to the message view developer.

Bah. When you do that the message view developer adds silly things like smooth scrolling which cannot be turned off. This is a bad argument for having the feature imho

The_Tick wrote:

medicine wrote:I'm not saying that it should always be .... or even always be on, this should be up to the message view developer.

Bah. When you do that the message view developer adds silly things like smooth scrolling which cannot be turned off. This is a bad argument for having the feature imho

Simple. Add a Preference checkbox 'Turn off Message View typing notifications.'

Paul wrote:

The_Tick wrote:

medicine wrote:I'm not saying that it should always be .... or even always be on, this should be up to the message view developer.

Bah. When you do that the message view developer adds silly things like smooth scrolling which cannot be turned off. This is a bad argument for having the feature imho

Simple. Add a Preference checkbox 'Turn off Message View typing notifications.'

That's contracdictory to what medicine said

Paul wrote:

The_Tick wrote:

medicine wrote:I'm not saying that it should always be .... or even always be on, this should be up to the message view developer.

Bah. When you do that the message view developer adds silly things like smooth scrolling which cannot be turned off. This is a bad argument for having the feature imho

Simple. Add a Preference checkbox 'Turn off Message View typing notifications.'

The typing notifications would be message view specific, not Adium wide. You can't turn off code inside a message view. If they were .plist attributes, it *might* be a little different.

Tipo 61 wrote:

Paul wrote:

The_Tick wrote: Bah. When you do that the message view developer adds silly things like smooth scrolling which cannot be turned off. This is a bad argument for having the feature imho

Simple. Add a Preference checkbox 'Turn off Message View typing notifications.'

The typing notifications would be message view specific, not Adium wide. You can't turn off code inside a message view. If they were .plist attributes, it *might* be a little different.

cbarrett had a plan at one point for how to do style-specific prefs. Hasn't really been fleshed out though.

Catfish_Man wrote:I think it's reasonable to add, but not in the 1.0 timeframe.

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