Visual overlay bug in contact list

[infernux]

If you have the GPG icon on the right and make the list smaller it will blend together with the text. See screenshot. I tested this with more than one GTK themes.

[infernux]

Screenshot

[asterix]

what's the pb ?

[anonymous]

Replying to asterix:

what's the pb ?

Is this meant to be a "feature"? It looks like a bug. I wouldn't display the icon transparently, also, the icon seems to be displayed on a white background. And if some part of the name is cut off I would use ellipsing. Mockup follows

[infernux]

Mockup how it should look like

[asterix]

it is transparent because not all your accounts are securely connected.

for elipsize, I don't like cause roster is already not very large, so if we remove one or 2 more characters because we add ..., we'll see nothing

[anonymous]

Interesting... I don't have the see-through thing anymore (donno if you noticed, on icon.png you actually see what's behind the lock icon!). Will need to try to reproduce... I see the point concerning ellipses.

But the GPG icon should not be put ontop a white background, see screenshot

[infernux]

compare with/without background

[infernux]

Ah silly me! The see-through "bug" apperas if you select that line (merged accounts or $accountname). So to reproduce, select an account header and make the window as small as possible - and then select another line and compare

[asterix]

I don't have your white background image bug here, image is transparent, so that should not happen.

about the see-through thing, it's a GTK+ thing. I sent them a mail to know more: gtk-list archive

[patrys]

I vote for ellipsization. It's the right thing to do and not only with padlock icons, same applies to avatars (try and set an avatar which is a black square with transparency set to 50% to see what I mean). Looks hell of an ugly and unfortunately I can't force all my contacts to use square and opaque avatars (if the avatar is wider than taller the same visual glitch applies - you can see half of the letters below the avatar).

[baze]

i agree, elipsizing would look better.

[asterix]

and for contact with no avatar, we'll have an empty space on the right at the place of the avatar column, won't that look strange ?

[jim++]

Asterix, I already have an empty space at the place of avatar. See #2473.

[steve-e]

+1 for ellipsizations.

Those who think that this lost space looks odd can assign a custom avatar. I want to shorten messages because it looks horrible when they appear under opaque avatars.

Patch is ready, just say yes... :-)

[asterix]

commit it, we'll what users think about that :)

[steve-e]

(In [8261]) Enable ellipsization in roster and chatwindow. Fixes #2079, #2739 Reorder occupantlist in groupchat to match roster. Fixes #2102

[asterix]

(In [8732]) Enable ellipsization in roster and chatwindow. Fixes #2079, #2739 Reorder occupantlist in groupchat to match roster. see #2102