Re: Freeze break: gnome-shell: clarify confusion with old logged messages
- From: Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>
- To: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- Cc: release-team gnome org, jstpierre mecheye net
- Subject: Re: Freeze break: gnome-shell: clarify confusion with old logged messages
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:32:36 -0400
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> So, say you were talking to someone last Wednesday in Empathy,
> then they ping you now and you two start talking, you'll see in the
> GNOME Shell notification bubble.
>
> JD: OK, I'm heading home now
> me: See you
> JD: You around?
> Sent at 15:50PM on Monday
> me: Yep
> JD: Hey, you interested in getting lunch?
>
> Which is pretty confusing for something that's a headline feature
> of GNOME 3 .... the first message is before the timestamp, and the
> timestamp is the timestamp of right now - there is no indication that
> the old messages are old. This regressed when we added retrieval of
> logged messages, before we'd just display
>
> JD: You around?
> me: Yep
> JD: Hey, you interested in getting lunch?
>
> With no timestamp unless there was a pause in the current conversation.
> What we'd like to see is:
>
> JD: OK, I'm heading home now
> me: See you
> Sent on Wednesday, March 23
> JD: You around?
> me: Yep
> JD: Hey, you interested in getting lunch?
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645609 has patches that form
> a pretty effective fix for this, two from Jasper St. Pierre, and one
> from me.
>
> - Impact on string freeze - none - the first two patches don't add
> strings. The third patch carefully recycles strings from the
> calendar to avoid adding anything. (Accepting a slightly worse
> appearance - it will just say "Wednesday, March 23" instead
> of "Sent on Wednesday, March 23".
>
> I did a test run of 'make update-po' to make sure no unexpected
> strings appeared in the .po files.
>
> - Impact on UI freeze - My strong assumption is that no marketing
> materials or docs will have featured screenshots of the confusing
> appearance described at the beginning of this mail.
>
> - Stability - patches are all straightforward, no concerns
> on my part.
>
> So, would like to get these in. (*Almost* done with the series of
> freeze break requests - about two more on my list. Sorry about the
> number here - trying to get as much as possible in before 2.91.3
> and hopefully have nothing or almost nothing for 3.0.0)
+1/2
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