(we = should also keep this on kde-core-devel)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Scott L= erman <smlerman@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Martin Klapetek <martin.= klapetek@gmail.com> wrote:
=
Hey,=

As was said in the main thread already, KDE T= elepathy does not try to be
swiss army knife and doitall, we also= don't want to copy all features of Kopete
(what would be the= point of that :) We also prefer to keep the amount of options
to= be as minimal as possible.

I could be wrong, but I think this discussion started with = the idea of retiring Kopete completely, in which case it would be nice to h= ave KDE Telepathy be as close as to matching Kopete's features as is re= asonable.

Yeah,= moreless. But if there's big interest in all those Kopete features, I = think Kopete should continue to be released, even if from extragear (and so= it would be in fact only retired from the KDE Apps release bulk). But if y= ou guys think otherwise, that's fine.

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As far as keeping the number of options minimal, my i= ssue with that is that the reason I like KDE so much more than other deskto= ps is that it's configurable. At this point, KDE seems to be the only d= esktop that doesn't enforce The One True Way to do everything, and I wo= uld hate to see the ability to configure KDE applications go away.

Right, but one also nee= ds to keep a good balance and not provide an option for every single possib= le thing. KTp really always aimed to be simple Chat application and our tar= get users are ordinary users. That's our mission from the start and I&#= 39;d like to keep it that way.

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> Manual sorting of groups in the contact list
> Disable automatic resizing of text entry area
> Disable sound notifications when away (ideally only with an explicit a= way
> setting and not idle/auto-away)

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These^ all fall into the category of what I wrote above. Maybe the las= t one
could be done, if someones finds the time (manpower is scar= ce).
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The reason I like manual sorting of groups is that i= t lets me put my Google contacts at the top of the list and my Facebook con= tacts at the bottom. Maybe I'm the only person that wants to do that, s= o I assume I can fake it with putting underscores at the beginning of the n= ames.

If the time to learn the code isn't too bad, I&= #39;d be happy to try to help implement stuff. I haven't done much C++ = since college, and I've never really done anything with Qt or KDE, but = if it's worth the trouble I'm sure I'd cause, I can give it a s= hot.

Sure, help= is always welcome. But please do get in touch at kde-telepathy@kde.org first, we hate to say "no&qu= ot; to already written code :)

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> No system tray icon when there's a new message from a contact with= an open
> chat window

Yes, well, ther= e should be blinking taskbar entry, no reason to blink at two places
<= div>really :)
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Yeah, I know, but for some weird reason I a= lways found the spinning Kopete icon easier to notice than the blinking tas= kbar entry. I can keep dreaming, though, right?

Well we should really improve the taskbar = then, if it does not do its job that well :) Creating another solutions is = just working around the original problem.

But let&= #39;s move actual issues reporting to bugzilla.