Redesign chat window
Hi,
First of all thank you for gajim. At last a good client using GTK :).
I've got some proposals for improving chat window's interface.
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It uses a button with a drop down menu to show available actions while there is plenty of space to just show simple buttons. (screen attached)
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I think that the pop-up menu available at the banner should be also available after clicking on the chat content. When the banner is not visible, and I hide those buttons on the bottom, there is no place to click to get the menu, you have to open the roster.
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Actions available for a selected phrase should be displayed even if there is nothing selected and use whole word under the cursor then. It is much faster to just click on a word rather then selecting it first. And after all, you usually look up just one word in a dictionary.
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If the banner is hidden and you don't use tabs (or tabs are hidden too) you cannot see the contact is composing a message.
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The Send button is a bit redundant if you use Enter to send messages. Maybe it should only be visible when someone uses Ctrl+Enter?
Regards, Thomas 'QsoRiX' Rydzynski