Feature #219
Option to Left-Align nick name in chat-window to eliminate crag
| Status: | New | Start: | 10/17/2009 | |
| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | Frontend GNOME | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Complexity: | High |
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| Votes: | 4 (View) |
Description
Vertical separator separating timestamp/nick from chatter.
Also, option to show/hide timestamps (is it there yet? didn't see it!)
example:
http://www.flamedesktop.com/wp-content/bf_data/apps/web/im-chat/x/xchat.png
Related issues
| duplicated by Smuxi - Feature #795 | Lining out messages horizontally | New | 01/02/2013 | ||
| blocked by Smuxi - Feature #1045 | HTML Renderer for Messages | New | 04/30/2015 |
History
Updated by Mirco Bauer 5469 days ago
- Complexity set to Medium
I would really really love this feature, but I haven't found out yet to align text in a Gtk.TextView! :(
Updated by Chris Le Sueur 5432 days ago
I would very much like to implement this. It looks like it will be pretty non-trivial to do, and require basically indenting the main text a suitable amount then drawing the timestamps and nicks in the gap at the appropriate place.
It has the potential to get pretty complex to handle resizing the columns appropriately, and line overflows in the main chat.
Updated by Mirco Bauer 5432 days ago
Chris Le Sueur wrote:
I would very much like to implement this. It looks like it will be pretty non-trivial to do, and require basically indenting the main text a suitable amount then drawing the timestamps and nicks in the gap at the appropriate place. It has the potential to get pretty complex to handle resizing the columns appropriately, and line overflows in the main chat.
I don't think thats the right thing to do as Smuxi allows to use non-monospace fonts too. TextView has support for columns somehow, but I have no idea how to make use of them.
Updated by omeringen . 4244 days ago
Hi,
This is the only one feature i am missing on smuxi. This makes chat window much more cleaner and readable. Please prioritize this feature.
Updated by omeringen . 4244 days ago
omeringen . wrote:
Hi, This is the only one feature i am missing on smuxi. This makes chat window much more cleaner and readable. Please prioritize this feature.
The screenshot link you provided is not working anymore. Weechat also has this feature, http://weechat.org/screenshots/
Updated by Mirco Bauer 3496 days ago
- Subject changed from Option to Left-Align 'chatter' in chat-window to eliminate crag to Option to Left-Align nick name in chat-window to eliminate crag
Updated by Mirco Bauer 2795 days ago
I have plans to move away from a Gtk.TextView to a HTML rendering engine to render Smuxi messages. In HTML/CSS this is trivial but with Gtk.TextView, even by reading the C implementation of it, I wasn't able to figure out how you can tab or column align text in a stable way.
Updated by Mirco Bauer 2795 days ago
So once Smuxi uses a HTML renderer this feature becomes feasible. The redmine issue to move to a HTML renderer is covered in #1045.