Gossip Updates: I have spent some time scratching a few of those itches with regards to the Gossip user interfaces recently. Most notably the group chat join dialog and the status presets dialog:
I have been looking for an excuse to try out the new GtkCellRendererCombo and thought this might be a good exercise for the reader. This is not the final cut, still needs some work…
As for the “Join Group Chat” dialog, I have been thinking long and hard about the best way to do it and really am still not happy with what I came up with.
The result is not a much different from what Mikael originally had it is just a little cleaner and smarter. This is what I came up with:
So basically these are the things we might do in the future[*] and things that we currently support:
- Join a group chat favourite
- Join multiple group chat favourites *
- Add/Edit/Delete a favourite
- Browse chat rooms *
What would be really nice is if you could do all this on one dialog. Typically applications tend to have a list on one window somewhere and another dialog to add or edit entries on the list. While this might be OK, I can’t help but think it there must be a way to use the same entries (for Server, Room, etc) when joining a custom group chat too. If you use a GtkTreeView to show favourites or possibly a list of rooms on a server (when browsing) then how do you fit a set of entries to join into a custom group chat on the same window? Perhaps that is a separate dialog?
The whole point is, from a usability perspective, how do we best present this to the user?
