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Feature #584

Away option

Added by Dekans about 15 years ago. Updated almost 11 years ago.

Status:
Confirmed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Quassel GUI (KDE)
Target version:
Start date:
02/28/2009
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
OS:
Linux

Description

It should be nice if there were a click-able button to switch between away and available states.
If would particularly appreciate if this option were available in the tray icon context menu.

awayButtons.diff (15.1 KB) awayButtons.diff Patch to add Away/Back toolbar buttons HappySmileMan, 03/02/2009 03:33 AM
away.diff (17.2 KB) away.diff Update of previous patch HappySmileMan, 03/04/2009 07:56 PM

History

#1 Updated by HappySmileMan about 15 years ago

Dekans wrote:

It should be nice if there were a click-able button to switch between away and available states.
If would particularly appreciate if this option were available in the tray icon context menu.

Made a patch to add Back and Away buttons to toolbar, they function just like the connect/disconnect buttons there, so you can click the button to set as away/back from all servers, or get a drop-down to do it on a per-server basis, listing only relevant ones (i.e. The "Back" drop down menu will list only servers you're currently away from, and vice-versa)

In addition to obvious UI changes and extra actions, it adds an "away" property to the Network class to handle this better, for example it wasn't possible to connect the "awaySet()" signal of "network->me()" just after connecting to the server (or while not connected), and calling isAway() would have caused a crash.
Now it's possible to call network->isAway() even while still connecting (or while disconnected, but this doesn't happen and wouldn't be useful, although this way it avoids the possibility of a crash in those circumstances). If it's still connecting it returns false, since you can't be set away until after you connect.

Right now this patch will show the "Back" button with "im-user", since I can't see any more suitable icons. The "Away" button is set to use the "im-user-away" icon (maybe "user-away" might be better?), but since there is no 22x22 icon included in this (and I don't know how to make one) it just shows up the text "Away".

#2 Updated by HappySmileMan about 15 years ago

This is an update to the above patch, I noticed that the buttons at the bottom of drop-down menus (Connect to all, Disconnect from all, Away from all, Back from all) didn't work, so this fixes that, and also tidies up code a bit to make it easier to add menus, not sure the developers would appreciate this "tidying" if they had plans of their own, but I'm not really expecting these patches to be incorporated anyway, I just got bored and wanted to code.

#3 Updated by ralfjung-e about 14 years ago

I am using Quassel 0.5.2 as it comes pre-installed with Kubuntu, i.e. without a dedicated server (can't afford that). Currently, if I want myself to be marked as "away" on all connected networks, I have to use the "/away" command on each network individually. I was told as #quassel that the "core" (if that's the name of the server component) will automatically go to away when the client disconnects, but of course that does not work when Quassel is used as standalone application. So it would be great to have some button, maybe displayed only when Quassel is in standalone mode, to quickly mark myself as being away/back on all networks.
And maybe the "Away log" will then also do something, because currently it's always empty for me.

#4 Updated by Sputnick about 14 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed

#5 Updated by Sputnick about 14 years ago

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Assigned
  • Assignee set to Sputnick

#6 Updated by Sputnick about 14 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Confirmed
  • Assignee deleted (Sputnick)

#7 Updated by Anonymous almost 11 years ago

  • Target version set to Some future release

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