Re: Chatting on Gnome-shell

[Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com>]

On 01/20/2011 06:20 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com
> <mailto: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.

Okay, I'll try that

 Although I'm not *quite* sure if this is gnome-shell or
> empathy (I assume you;'re using empathy?)

Its definitely gnome-shell (front-end) but yeah, ... its using empathy 
at the rear.  Which reminds me, there seems to be a 'battle of wills' 
going on between the two ...about who gets to be seen.  Empathy wants to 
show its face sometimes and when it succeeds there is usually a quirky 
performance in Gnome-shell.  So ... I really don't understand what the 
deal is between Gnome-shell people and empathy hackers.  I like the 
front-end ... it removes the clutter (floating dialogues add to visual 
madness!).  However, the front-end looks dead and robotic without the 
emoticons and colours.

How about trying to fix it?
>   We can help.
Wow ... I'm just one Architect/designer/cg-artist who likes to play with 
computers.  I only know enough coding to automate tasks in my work. C, 
C++, and C# is simply not my area.

> sri

Onyeibo