Ticket #1381 (new enhancement)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 1 month ago

hierarchical groups

Reported by: rakaur Assigned to: asterix
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: usability Version: svn
Severity: normal Keywords: nested roster groups
Cc: travis@pobox.com OS: All

Description

I think it'd be awesome if we could make groups under groups. It would work well for things like transports where you'd like to keep them sorted by AIM, MSN, Jabber, etc.

Also, being able to arrange the groups in something other than alphabetical order would be nice. I like sorting mine by people that I most often talk to, but unless i name things like "01 - Family" then "Buddies" is always on top.

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01/11/06 19:58:36 changed by asterix

  • milestone deleted.

for the subgroup, this can maybe be done only with groupname:

group/subgroup1 and group/subgroup2. This way other clients won't have strange things

01/11/06 23:57:25 changed by nk

I would not use a roster that would look like that, nor liked to see bloated UI that can do this. GMail Web Interface doesn't have a Delete button and most don't care. I would like to have one, but I guess majority does not care so the UI is kept simple and nice. I propose WONTFIX evnethough I share your funcionality problems

01/12/06 06:55:16 changed by nicfit

  • cc set to travis@pobox.com.

I disagree. For huge rosters, group hierarchies are a great thing. Using a Group/Subgroup syntax is also compatible with other clients (Exodus), they just nest the UI tree.

01/16/06 05:57:56 changed by rakaur

Perhaps a look at JEP-0083 would help.

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0083.html

01/16/06 06:00:23 changed by rakaur

Even if there's no way of implementing this, I'd enjoy seeing meta-contacts at the very least. For people that want to use transports and have the same person on XMPP/AIM/MSN/etc it's nice to have them in the roster once instead of three+ times.

01/20/06 16:12:33 changed by nicfit

Ahh, I was not even aware of JEP 83. Thanks for the pointer. Also, gmail wised up and added a delete button :-)

01/20/06 17:28:51 changed by nk

yes I also didn't that JEP. Travis, I was using Gmail Delete Button Firefox Extension until today.. so it's the same for me :)

07/20/06 14:21:12 changed by anonymous

Is there any chance to have this feature in one of the next releases? It's

the last thing I really miss in gajim.

11/06/06 00:08:10 changed by jim++

  • type changed from defect to enhancement.

anonymous > One day maybe...

01/08/07 10:17:29 changed by Cast

I miss this functionality too fully agree with author

04/25/07 21:54:11 changed by anonymous

  • component changed from roster to usability.

04/28/07 17:51:12 changed by Armin Ronacher

  • priority changed from normal to high.

*bump* :-) I miss it too

10/14/07 14:01:36 changed by mq

  • os set to All.

*bump* any news on this?

02/26/08 09:24:17 changed by gluth

When this will be?

02/26/08 09:33:57 changed by asterix

not planned now. not for 0.12

05/27/08 05:25:57 changed by dtoshack

  • keywords set to nested roster groups.
  • version changed from 0.9.1 to svn.
  • milestone set to 0.12.

YES PLEASE! :-) I've wanted this feature for ages.

According to http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0083.html groups should be implemented with a delimiter for non compliant clients as mentioned above. But preferably a string instead of a single character to avoid misinterpretation.

Such as:

group1 group1::subgroup1 group1::subgroup2

... etc.

05/27/08 05:30:02 changed by dtoshack

  • cc deleted.

hmm strange rendering. Apologies, that was meant to come out like:

group1

group1::subgroup1

group1::subgroup2

... etc.

So thats why these ticket systems have a preview button! :-D

05/27/08 05:34:13 changed by dtoshack

  • cc set to travis@pobox.com.

sorry Travis ... added your cc back. Last ticket correction. I promise!

05/27/08 07:26:14 changed by asterix

  • milestone deleted.

we won't add that for 0.12.

Add/Change #1381 (hierarchical groups)




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