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 Telepathy 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 have KDE Telepathy be as close as to matching Kopete's features as is reasonable.

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

 

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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 away
> setting and not idle/auto-away)

These^ all fall into the category of what I wrote above. Maybe the last one

could be done, if someones finds the time (manpower is scarce).

 

The reason I like manual sorting of groups is that it lets me put my Google contacts at the top of the list and my Facebook contacts at the bottom. Maybe I'm the only person that wants to do that, so I assume I can fake it with putting underscores at the beginning of the names.

If the time to learn the code isn't too bad, I'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 shot.

 

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

Yes, well, there should be blinking taskbar entry, no reason to blink at two places

really :)

 

Yeah, I know, but for some weird reason I always found the spinning Kopete icon easier to notice than the blinking taskbar entry. I can keep dreaming, though, right?