1.4.1 bugs & suggestions

[Errol Smith <errol@ros.com.au>]

xchat-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm, RH6.0, 2.2.14 kernal, KDE 1.1.2

Bugies:
- I was
going to say that notify is broken, but then I noticed that the
default notification interval was 15000, not 15 seconds. You might want
to change that. :-) (probably just in the RPM)
 Anyway, notify doesnt activate as soon as you connect. It seems to wait
<notification interval> seconds before it updates. It should really update
as soon as you connect to a [new] server.
 Also the menus are greyed out when in the notify tab - why?

-if you start with -c option, the server list pops up temporarily,
even
though I have "No Server List On Startup" checked (annoying :). Also,
why
is the -c option not default behavior? To auto connect you have
to
manually check a box in the server list anyway, and it's not intuitive
to have
to do more than that.

- away handling - alt-A and the menu option
work as toggles,
but /away seems to be independant of the menu or alt-a
settings. eg:
alt-a
--- You have been marked as being away
(menu indicates
I'm away)
/away
--- You are no longer marked as being away
(menu still
indicates I'm away)
alt-a
--- You are no longer marked as being away
(now
menu says I'm here)
/away reason
--- You have been marked as being
away
(menu still thinks I'm here)
etc..


Future Features?:
-auto away
after X seconds inactivity

-auto away-off on keypress (preferably only on actual chat text - eg should
be
able to flip around the windows, whois etc without away status being
affected)

-have some simple keypress to switch between tabs (eg mirc has ALT-Space)
-
 maybe only switch to active (red) tabs? (btw, KDE steals ctrl-tab)

-when rightclicking on a nickname or in /msg window, have an option to add
to
notify list

-be able to do a WHOIS from the notify window (maybe double click)

-have some kind of note option in the notify list (to remind you of who
they
are :-)

-smarter nickname completion, for names with wierd chars around them. eg
many
people have nicks like ^nick^, _nick_, |nick|, [nick] etc, and it
would be
nice to just type 'n' 'i' <tab>  :-)

 That'll do for now! :-)

Errol

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