Adium

Ticket #10046 (new enhancement)

Opened 6 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

New Event type: "Psychic" typing notification

Reported by: dnuzum Assigned to: zacw
Priority: normal Milestone: Good idea for "later"
Component: Events Version: 1.3b2
Severity: normal Keywords: psychic
Cc: Patch: None
Pending: 0

Description (Last modified by jas8522)

The psychic feature is very nice and although is not on by default, doesn't mean that it can't be changed further.

First off the notification/chat window doesn't pop up like a standard new chat message and is therefore useless in its current form. The point of this is to notify the user before the message is received. In all my usage with it, the feature works, but I don't know it has been activated until the actual message comes through and the psychic message is above the text.

Secondly an option to change what the notification says. While the disturbance message is funny the first time, after that it no longer has its effect. Something as simple as (username) is starting a conversation with you, or is typing a message to you would be fine. A feature to change what the notification says should be included in the preferences.

Change History

(follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 06/10/2008 09:50:22 PM changed by jas8522

  • owner set to zacw.
  • summary changed from Psychic force chat window top-most window and ability to change the psychic text. to Psychic chat window should take focus.
  • description changed.
  • milestone set to Adium X 1.3.

The second requests exists in #10014

I think the first one makes sense... though some might find it annoying, Does the growl notification and dock bounce not occur?

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 06/11/2008 05:00:17 AM changed by dnuzum

Replying to jas8522:

The second requests exists in #10014 I think the first one makes sense... though some might find it annoying, Does the growl notification and dock bounce not occur?

I was attempting to build onto http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/10014 with the ability to personalize the text of Psychic.

Pertaining to point number one - I have been unable to find a way to enable growl or dock bounce (like a standard new message) for Psychic. I would assuming that something as simple as replacing the new message code with the psychic code and have them be able to coexist would not be a problem. But, I am also no good with code and am submitting this as something (that would hopefully be simple) to add to the functionality of Adium.

(follow-up: ↓ 4 ) 06/11/2008 10:47:04 AM changed by zacw

How is this handled different than any other chat opening? Chats don't take focus when incoming messages are created initially.

(in reply to: ↑ 3 ) 06/11/2008 02:17:24 PM changed by dnuzum

Replying to zacw:

How is this handled different than any other chat opening? Chats don't take focus when incoming messages are created initially.

My new incoming chats force dock bounce, name flash on dock icon, and growl notification. I don't see an options for that in Adium or Growl. Adding a section in the Events tab in preferences for Psychic would be simple enough to allow customization of Psychic notifications in my opinion.

(follow-up: ↓ 6 ) 06/13/2008 11:26:37 AM changed by zacw

  • summary changed from Psychic chat window should take focus to "Psychic" typing notification events.
  • component changed from Message View to Adium UI.
  • milestone changed from Adium X 1.3 to Adium X 1.4.

We can't add new strings at this point in time, and this better suits the notifications-themed 1.4. Hopefully a nice ruleset would eliminate the need to special case this.

(in reply to: ↑ 5 ) 06/13/2008 01:29:54 PM changed by dnuzum

Replying to zacw:

We can't add new strings at this point in time, and this better suits the notifications-themed 1.4. Hopefully a nice ruleset would eliminate the need to special case this.

I think that sounds like a good idea/goal for the next release.

08/01/2008 02:06:30 PM changed by Robby

  • component changed from Adium UI to Events.
  • milestone changed from Adium X 1.4 to Good idea for "later".

08/02/2008 06:38:02 AM changed by Robby

  • summary changed from "Psychic" typing notification events to New Event type: "Psychic" typing notification.

08/02/2008 06:40:10 AM changed by Robby

  • type changed from defect to enhancement.