Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Poll

[daniel huhardeaux <devel tootai net>]

Damien Sandras a écrit :

> Le vendredi 24 septembre 2004 à 08:55 +0200, Kilian Krause a écrit :
>  
>
> > > I think "missed call" = not answered, busy, but NOT Do not disturb
> > > and "unanswered call" = not answered, busy, and Do not disturb.
> > >      
> > IMHO, actually no. Every call that you didn't see for whatever reason is
> > missed. As long as there was no chance for you to see it, there's no
> > secure way of telling if you would have preferred to take it or not.
> >
> >    
>
> So to summarize, you think that :
> - we should rename "unanswered calls" in "missed calls"
>
> - "missed calls" would be for : calls not answered in time", calls
> received while you are in DND, calls received while you are in a call
> with another user. ie, that's the current concept of unanswered calls
> but with a better naming
>
> - popups are annoying, a message in the statusbar indicating the number
> of missed calls, together with an icon in the tray (I prefer the
> exclamation mark as teh enveloppe could be kept for voicemail with
> asterisk)
>  
Ok for all

> - the message stays visible as long as you don't act with the gui, ie :
> make a call, play with the menu, ...
>
> Daniel, any comments?
>  
Why not as long as you didn't click on this message like a ok in popup 
windows? And for instance, if you start a new call and you didn't 
acknowledge the missed call, this window will popup (in this case I 
accept ;-)). So always operator has to acknowledge thus calls

> Is that ok for you to prevent yet another popup, but have a visible
> indication of missed calls in the tray and statusbar, consultable
> through the current history?
>
> Are you ok with the definition of missed calls given above?
>
> Others, any comment?
>
> I too prefer to prevent popups, but would like to keep the history as it
> is the way hard phones work.
>
>  
>
> > And there should be an indicator for >0 missed calls in the tray icon
> > and maybe the status bar of GM or something. Just anywhere in the GUI
> > where you can see it right away.
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Do you prefer to :
> > > 1) keep the current notion of unanswered calls (calls not answered,
> > > received when you are busy, ie in a call, or when you are in DND)
> > >
> > > 2) replace it by a notion of missed calls (calls not answered, received
> > > when you are busy, but not calls received when you are in DND which
> > > would be considered as "received calls").
> > >      
> > IMHO, bad idea. Putting DND into received calls will list by far too
> > many calls as received. You haven't had a single chance to "vote" them
> > welcome or disapproved, yet GM would still count them among those you
> > preferred to have.
> >
> > What could be an option is to ask the user to approve them when
> > returning from DND mode. I.e. when going back to normal mode, to write
> > telling "you have missed 3 calls in DND, click here to see them now" in
> > the statusbar.
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Anyway, would you prefer to have:
> > > 1) a message in the statusbar indicating the number of "unanswered"
> > > calls or missed calls
> > >
> > > 2) a popup indicating the unanswered/missed calls and possibly
> > > presenting a list of them (a bit like the history, sort of a duplicate
> > > perhaps => perhaps not useful)
> > >      
> > NO POPUP, PLEASE! 
> >
> > I'd prefer a white envelope on the tray icon and maybe in the statusbar
> > of GM the number of missed with a link to click on it and have the calls
> > history open up. Alternatively we could use a toolbar button for that
> > (yet that would need to change its symbol upon toggle "no calls"/">0
> > calls missed")
> >
> > The statusbar indication should only be cleared when:
> > a) you're now in a call and need to write the traffic stats into there
> > b) the user has seen the history and thus acknowledged the missing
> > calls. (i.e. clicked on the hint that there were any, or gone there thru
> > the menu)
> >
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