Re: Chatting on Gnome-shell

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

gnome-shell does not care about Empathy. Both use Telepathy as the
backend, the only special casing for Empathy in the shell is making
sure to not show "You got a message" notifications because the shell
will take them over.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com> wrote:
> 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
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