Color, Font and other things in Conference Rooms and single chats

[grabber@…]

Yeah, how are you?

Developers from Gaim implemented a bar with colors, fonts, smileys on conference rooms. I think this is very cool improvent to Gajim, can we work on it?

Thanks for support, thanks for all code developed!

Thanks.

[asterix]

do you have a screenshot ? We already have the emots button, and I don't see the need to change font and color in each message, so have this features in pref windows seems enough to me

[anonymous]

I think this is a very cool feature, you ready?

Screenshot: http://cyber-labs.org/feature.png

Thanks, Grabber.

[asterix]

ha .. this is used to generate XHTML. So yes we'd like to do such an interface. Patches are welcome :)

[grabber@…]

I need study it, i don't have a solution yeat. Anyone can help me to develop this patch? Thanks!

[roidelapluie]

I'll work on this :-)

[roidelapluie]

Take a look at my ugly code (Don't try this at home kids)

[roidelapluie]

Take a look at my ugly code (Don't try this at home kids)

[roidelapluie]

new patch fixing news lines and < >. Unstable and buggy.

[roidelapluie]

Fix a bug with colors

[neoex]

Why not making something more clean, for example a dropdown menu with bold, italic etc options, like pidgin does?

[steve-e]

There hasn't been any progress on this for months. We will have to complete features like this in 0.13.

[roidelapluie]

Yes I have a big problem with it and I'll have to investigate more deeply

[vArDo]

My opinion: I agree with neoex. Formatting should be in a drop down menu (or maybe 2 menus) like in Pidgin. The current way (looking at screenshots) it is done can be overwhelming when you add some more icons (i.e. strikethrough). I remember that this was one of the main reasons why I moved from Gaim to Gajim. There were too many (unuseful for me) icons in chat window and no way to hide them.

[asterix]

could you attach a screenshot of this windows in pidgin? The ones I see on their site have many buttons.

[vArDo]

Font dropdown menu in Pidgin's chat window

[vArDo]

Insert dropdown menu in Pidgin's chat window

[vArDo]

Small popup window with emoticons in Pidgin's chat window

[vArDo]

All the screenshots I've attached are from Pidgin 2.4.0. I think it would be nice to organize rst formatting in this way to show people what's available. But I don't suppose people really click on those buttons, so a dropdown menu is OK. At least I'm a keyboard-only Gajim user (it's simply much faster IMHO).

[asterix]

My opinion is that it's a good way to encourage users to not use HTML: if you want to change several properties, it's many clicks. But I also agree that having many buttons bloats the UI...

[roidelapluie]

this is a new version of the code. compatible with latest svn. new: font conog

[roidelapluie]

s/conog/config/

[js]

What needs still to be done:

• Clickable links when sending XHTML
• A way do disable sending XHTML at all
• Shortcuts for bold, underline, italc, maybe strikethorugh. Font and Colour won't make sense as you have to click for these anyway - it would only make sense to have a shortcut for example to make it red. I'd suggest Alt-B, Alt-I and Alt-U here, they aren't used yet.

[js]

And maybe we should make the styles checkbox menu items? So you see whether they're active or not when you open the menu.

What I absolutely miss: Select for example bold and then the text I type should be bold, until I select bold again / deselect it if we make it a checkbox. When we have shortcuts, that would allow for example typing: "This is ^[bnot^[b the way it should be" and would display the not bold then :). (Note: when pressing Alt together with a key, that usually generates an escape code, so ^[something is basically Alt-something).

Another thing that'd be nice: XHTML-IM allows writing lists (ul and ol). That'd be very cool to have them!

Do we want to allow to insert images? Maybe a reason to implement BoB, which we should implement anyway for captchas at registration?

[steve-e]

Sorry roidelapluie, but that won't go into 0.12. There is still a lot of stuff to do and each new feature will delay the release.

[roidelapluie]

now with ckackmenuitems

[roidelapluie]

mmmh... yes that's something I understand.

I thought the feature freeze would come with the alpha release.

But, my patch is now Okay and everybody can test it.

[js]

steve-e, I tested it, and if he fixes the issues I listed above before 0.12 alpha, I think we can include that in 0.12 alpha. It works pretty good with alpha4 of his patch. Did you give it a try, steve-e?

[roidelapluie]

Beta: now handle url's and don't send xHTML if it is not needed

[roidelapluie]

[10648] Very basic integration of xHtml GUI