New private chat options

Submitted by TJT on Wed, 01/08/2014 - 09:44
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Soulseek General Discussion

This option seems like a good one in theory, but I'm not sure how useful it would be to people as it's set up now. I think a running chat option grouped my user would be better. There are also no add user to list/browse user's files/etc. options when you right click in the individual chat windows like there used to be.

Is there a reason the open previously unclosed chat option in the original version hasn't been included in Qt? Or why other standard features in NS haven't been added yet? There must have been reasons to include them in the first place. It seems like there is support for it.

Submitted by Nir on Wed, 01/08/2014 - 12:31.

The context menu not appearing (as well as the chat view being editable and links not working) is a bug, thank you for pointing it out. I'll post the fix later today.

Not sure what you mean by running chat grouped by user?

The open previously unclosed chat option is basically automatic in the new build. You open a chat, you get all the history in place. You want go get rid of the history, you close the chat from the list. This is a good example of how I'm trying to do things differently with SoulseekQt, and with more user feedback. I worked with ScarletFire to arrive at the existing design. But it's work in progress, and I'm definitely looking to add enough options and toggles to make as many users happy as possible, within reason.

Submitted by TJT on Thu, 01/09/2014 - 21:09.

The latest 1-8 build is working well. I hadn't fully tested the previous one because it looked buggy. I didn't know it saved the chats between sessions. It's not the same as reopening the full windows automatically, but it's still a very useful and welcome new feature. Maybe there could be a clear all messages button in the message list tab or in the context menu? That would come in handy.

When I say a running chat grouped by user, I mean add more than the latest sent or message received. When somebody says something like yes, no or ok, there's no context with it. That's why I thought maybe including the last 2-5 sent/received messages would make things more convenient.