Re: 1.4.1 bugs & suggestions

["Frederic L. W. Meunier" <fredlwm@olympiquedemarseille.org>]

On 2000-03-29 (Today) at 21:00 +1000, Errol Smith typed:

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

You should get better results compiling yourself from the
src.rpm or tar.bz2.

| 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)

It's 15000 milliseconds, not seconds.

|  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?

It should activate when there's someone online that's on your
notify list. If it waits 15 seconds or not, for me there's no
difference (if it was 15 minutes...).

| - 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..

/away with a reason: away
/away: back
alt-a: away
alt-a again: back

So, the menu isn't refreshing? I don't have X-Chat on this
machine to test it.

| Future Features?:
| -auto away
| after X seconds inactivity

Now that I'm one to have asked such feature, I disagree. auto
away is lame, and various channels are banning people using
it. But it may be easy to write a script (no, I'm not good at
Perl).

| -have some simple keypress to switch between tabs (eg mirc
| has ALT-Space)

You can do that via keybindings. The default is meta1-1,
meta1-2... For me it's fine.

| -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> :-)

Difficult, huh? If it's a small channel no problem, but what
about a channel with >15 users? A lot will have 'n' and 'i' as
letters. BTW, why people use ^,{,[,|,\,`?

-- 
Frédéric L. W. Meunier [Tel: +55-21-620-7173 - Niterói-RJ Brasil]
fredlwm@{olympiquedemarseille.org,{marseille.}nitnet.com.br}

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