url catching

[goldmann <marek_AT_goldmann_DOT_pl>]

It would be nice, if Gajim could catch urls ('http://', 'www.', '@') form status messages from users:

• in status message displayed on roster
• in status message displayed in chat window (top of the window)
• in user info

Somewhere else?

[nk]

* in status message displayed on roster

no, as it kills usability, user has to pass sniper tests to be order to use our main window if this happens.

in user info, if user adds a link in his status msg chances are it's too big so it won't be shown as a whole

on status change event it is catched

for banner, banner could be clickable in the place where status msg is if status message is special but gtk labels aren't clickable, so we wait for GTK 2.10

[anonymous]

no, as it kills usability, user has to pass sniper tests to be order to

use our main window if this happens.

Usability? In my opinion it would be a great enhancement. You can put a true/false option in ACE to toggle url catching on roster.

[asterix]

I don't think it's a good thing to have clickable things everywhere

(except maybe in banner, there is a GtkLinkButton? in GTK2.10 that can be used)

[dkirov]

How can we combine GtkLabel? with GtkLinkButton?, these are two different

widgets? If we have:

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We cannot make a single lable with clickable parts in it.

[dkirov]

I'm not sure, but as long as I could see in the new api GtkLabel? has

nothing related to links. GtkLinkButton? comes as replacement of GnomeHRef, as part of Project Ridley, this is different and cannot help us to put url in label.

... If we used GtkTextView? we could do this long before gtk+-2.10. The other solution is to use GtkDrawingArea? and draw the text with pango, something like custom widget, but this will bring many new problems.

IMO the places, where clickable text should apear are:

• banners in chats and groupchats
• vcard window, but not profile window (GtkLinkButton? can be used here)

[asterix]

I was thinking about a hbox in which we put labels and linkbuttons.

I agree for where to put clickable links (if profile window means the window in which we edit our own profile and vcard window, the window in which we see others vcard)

[asterix]

in fact wrapping / elpisze is not possible with hbox, so no clickable link

in banner until GTK offer a way to do that in label. So only use linkbutton (or GnomeHRef) in vcard window if user has GTK >= 2.10 (or gnome-python)

[asterix]

will be done in #1840

[patrys@…]

Why not just add a submenu "Use link..." to the context menu with all URIs

catched from status message?

[asterix]

I find this idea ugly ... other comments ?

[nk]

I don't have PyGTK 2.10 yet (nor 2.9), but

http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtklinkbutton.html is out and I'll patch for the sake of good old times.

This ticket then can be closed, but the refactor of the window should happen at some time.

[nk]

in theory it all works nicely. I could be wrong in a place or two (especially on the params on the table.attach method). This should have been in from GTK 0.1 not GTK 2.10 but anywayzzzzzz

[asterix]

we now use linkbutton in vcard when pygtk2.10 is installed