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[Steve Smith <tarkasteve@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

There's a first-cut of this available here, comments welcome:

    http://haltcondition.net/~ssmith/gwibber/

Some implementation notes:

* I'm currently using GObject signals for sending status updates back
to the client.  This is probably OK for a few signals but it may be
more pythonic to use a proper observer pattern base-class for
communication between components (keyword support, etc).

* Currently the text-view area wants to default to multiple lines and
won't shrink.  I can't work out how to override this, suggestions
welcome.

* There are still some other parts that probably belong in the message component

Cheers,
Steve

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Steve Smith <tarkasteve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Ryan Paul <segphault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> I think it's a good idea, but it's beyond the scope of what I'm
>> comfortable with doing for the 1.0 release. So, I think that it's
>> something that would probably be good to do in a separate branch and
>> then we can merge it post-1.0.
>
> Seems reasonable, any thoughts on a timeline for 1.0?
>
>> I think that using GtkSpell on a TextView
>> would probably be a reasonable improvement.
>
> That's what I was looking at.  In particular I was going to base it on
> the input area for Gajim, this also implements custom keybindings
> which opens up some possibilities for power-users.
>
>> Another feature that I'd like to see implemented further down the road
>> is support for auto-completing nicknames. That's something that could
>> also be done in the custom widget at some point in the future. Anybody
>> else have any thoughts on input changes that they would like to see?
>> Other things that come to mind are perhaps using background color-coding
>> to indicate which protocols are active.
>
> URL shortening could be more interactive.  At the very least there
> should be some feedback that a URL is being processed, but it would be
> nice if raw URLS were shown but highlighted; a right click (or an
> inline button) would give the option to shorten.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>