Re: Empathy UI freeze break request

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 14:41 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 09:32 -0400, Cosimo Cecchi wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I would like to request an UI freeze break for Empathy's log viewer.
> >> The search entry currently used (as seen in [1]) doesn't use symbolic
> >> icons and looks generally different from the shell search entry pattern,
> >> where there's only one icon on the left which turns to the "clear"
> >> action once there's some text written in it (Documents and Contacts also
> >> use the same pattern). Screenshots of my tweaked version here ([2] and
> >> [3]).
> >>
> >> Patch is attached to this [4] bug report.
> >>
> >> [1] http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/empathy-logb-current.png
> >> [2] http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/empathy-logb1.png
> >> [3] http://people.gnome.org/~cosimoc/empathy-logb2.png
> >> [4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659298
> >
> > No objections for the docs.

This would require updating the screenshot in the 3.2 release-notes, but
I can do that tomorrow (or anybody feel free to if you have time).

> +1 for the release team.

Another +1 from r-t, so go ahead.

> (with my GTK+ maintainer hat on, I'll take this as another argument
> pro a standard 'search entry' in GTK)

Totally +1. Actually Empathy's "old" search field design is what is
Evolution's search field design (with a dropdown for the first icon), so
this should also get changed in Evolution 3.3.x for the sake of
consistency.

andre
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