Re: 1.4.1 bugs & suggestions

[Peter <zed@linux.com>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Errol Smith wrote:

> 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)

Wrong, the default is 15. From cfgfiles.c:

      prefs.dcctimeout = 240;
      prefs.dccstalltimeout = 180;
      prefs.notify_timeout = 15;
      prefs.tint_red =
      prefs.tint_green =
 ....

(very old versions had 15000).


>  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.

I don't care about notify, if someone wants to take on this feature they
are welcome to.


>  Also the menus are greyed out when in the notify tab - why?

So you don't do stuff like connect in a notify tab :)


> -if you start with -c option, the server list pops up temporarily,
> even
> though I have "No Server List On Startup" checked (annoying :).

Not an easy fix, do it yourself if you want.


> 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.

So the serverlist doesnt popup and disappear if you don't have any
autoconnect servers (the load-server-list code and the
display-server-list code are one and the same).


> - 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

The menus don't reflect the server, they're just these so you can change
things.


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

Best left to a script me thinks.


> -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)

alt-1/2/3/4....


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

Add it yourself, the menu is editable.



-- 
Peter. <zed@linuxpower.org>

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