Re: Chatting on Gnome-shell

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com> wrote:

After a chat session with a friend while running Gnome-shell, I decided to illustrate my previous suggestions.  I have attached a screenshot of my chat (with his permission) here:
http://picturepush.com/public/4899595

My observations once again:
1. Its hard to differentiate between my text and his.
2. The gradients behind the text are supposed to fix the problem in #1 but they don't do that effectively.  They add to the visual chaos.

My Suggestion ... see:
http://picturepush.com/public/4899601
1. I think coloured and/or bold text will do it better
2. Feature requests:  Add the fading to the top of the text scroll as the text leaves the chat dialogue. Make the Icon more prominent, indent text to the right if necessary, to allow an enhanced icon.  If it sticks out, COOOOOL!.

I'd file a bug in bugzilla so that someone working on gnome-shell can address it.  Although I'm not *quite* sure if this is gnome-shell or empathy (I assume you;'re using empathy?)  How about trying to fix it?  We can help.

sri