Your buddy is typing

Post by **evands** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:23 am

The_Tick wrote:But advanced isn't a solution. Advanced is just a holding place for stuff while we figure out a better way. Adding something else to advanced makes for more work later on.

I still say advanced has its place.

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 3:20 am

evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:But advanced isn't a solution. Advanced is just a holding place for stuff while we figure out a better way. Adding something else to advanced makes for more work later on.
I still say advanced has its place.

Eh, I dunno.. I had a weird thought last night that, if a person holds down option, he/she gets the users dialogue, with a checkbox to enable advanced options, in which case a lot of options would open up. That in itself was weird, but eh

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:28 am

The_Tick wrote:Eh, I dunno.. I had a weird thought last night that, if a person holds down option, he/she gets the users dialogue, with a checkbox to enable advanced options, in which case a lot of options would open up. That in itself was weird, but eh

Uggggggh... that sounds very bad. Leave Advanced visible if it exists! If a user doesn't need advanced, he/she can leave it alone.

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:56 pm

evands wrote:
The_Tick wrote:But advanced isn't a solution. Advanced is just a holding place for stuff while we figure out a better way. Adding something else to advanced makes for more work later on.
I still say advanced has its place.

And this is exactly the kind of option that belongs there (Unless we can somehow stick it with privacy, but I have no idea how that area is going to turn out

).

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:21 am

Adam... you never cease to utterly confuse me!

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:30 am

dchoby98 wrote:Adam... you never cease to utterly confuse me!

"Advanced is just a holding place for stuff while we figure out a better way" -> "we can somehow stick it with privacy, but I have no idea how that area is going to turn out"

Makes sense to me. This is a viable option and since we have no idea where to put it at the moment, let's just stick it in advanced (Which I did, earlier today)

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:36 am

I was actually referring to the debate about whether we should have the advanced prefs at all.

Post by **evands** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 7:06 am

dchoby98 wrote:I was actually referring to the debate about whether we should have the advanced prefs at all.

I vote yes! But then, that's my job.

Post by **cbarrett** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 9:06 pm

As far as Advanced prefs go, here's what I think:

- Many of the prefs in Advanced are on the way out, are not needed, or need some serious rethinking
- However, there are some prefs in there that work well and don't really have another place to go.

How about, perhaps eventually, renaming the Advanced area to Miscellaneous?

thejoshu · Post by **thejoshu** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:02 am

Well, it's been about a year on this one... any light at the end of the tunnel? I hate others seeing when I'm typing, and I'd really appreciate this option being added.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:08 am

It looks like this discussion was pre-trac. Please search Trac and if there isn't a ticket about this issue, feel free to create one.

Alt · Post by **Alt** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:15 am

Is this not what the "Let others know when you are typing" checkbox in the "Accounts->Preferences->Privacy" tab does already? Or does it not work as advertised?

Post by **bgannin** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:04 am

Alt wrote:Is this not what the "Let others know when you are typing" checkbox in the "Accounts->Preferences->Privacy" tab does already? Or does it not work as advertised?

Provided your chosen protocol supports it