Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Various improvement ideas

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mardi 12 février 2008 à 07:09 +0100, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> (1) Visitor functions
> 
> There are a number of objects which list others, and have a a visit 
> method, which generally looks like this :
> void visit (sigc::slot<void, VisitedObjectType> visitor);
> 
> This is pretty handy when you want to loop on all the objects, but not 
> when you're trying to lay your hand on one of them, so I pondered 
> modifying things to look like this :
> void visit (sigc::slot<bool, VisitedObjectType> visitor);
> 
> The presence of the boolean would allow the visitor to tell if it really 
> wants to go on or if it has seen enough.
> 
> (2) Ok/Cancel requests
> 
> The current ekiga engine has support for abstract form requests, which 
> allow asking quite a few things to the user (edit contacts, for 
> example), but they are definitely not sufficient for everything.
> 
> Perhaps we could have an Ekiga::OkCancelRequest class, similar to the 
> Ekiga::FormRequest class, which would allow showing very simple dialogs 
> to the user ; something like :
> - a title "Are you sure you want to close that chat window?" ;
> - an explanation "This means you disconnect from whatever" ;
> - only two buttons : Ok and Cancel (closing the dialog is a cancel).
> 
> (3) Notifications
> 
> Again, something forms can't do : just a notification something bad 
> happened. This wouldn't require a complex type, but just simple data.
> 
> I was thinking something along the lines of :
> - an enum with Warning and Error ;
> - a string describing the problem.


Warning, Error, Notice (or Info).

> Notice that in most cases, I think having a status line in the object is 
> better for the interface (example : an LDAP book tells about errors in 
> its status instead of pestering the user with a popup), but there are 
> certainly cases where we'll want notifications.
> 
> 
> What do you think about it ?
> 

Good for me...
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