Ticket #163 (new enhancement)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Link avatar picture to the Get Info window

Reported by: melo Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.1
Component: GUI Version: version 0.8
Keywords: Cc:

Description

In the chat window, the icon of the avatar should be open the Get Info window if clicked.

Change History

  Changed 5 years ago by dbcm

  • milestone changed from Future to 1.1

Maybe when you click you can copy the avatar like os x and double click or right mouse click to git info.

Or better, click and goes to get info and the avatar in get info have the select enabled to bo able to copy and, errr, change? :)

follow-up: ↓ 4   Changed 5 years ago by jppavao

I don't find this to be intuitive at all. We already have a Get Info button in the toolbar of every chat window. As for copying stuff to the clipboard with a single click, that's too destructive and unexpected. Imagine the user has some info on the clipboard that isn't available anywhere else. If the avatar is clicked and that info gets trashed to be replaced by a buddy icon, the user will probably be angry enough to trash the client and never touch it again. :)

Or were you referring to something like the menus available on each Flickr avatar, for example? That could probably work. By also adding a small circular flat and gray "i" button somewhere in the window (as a shortcut for Get Info), we could be able to ditch the toolbar entirely and save some screen real-estate.

  Changed 5 years ago by melo

Click-to-copy is wrong.

I don't think we need further 'i' icons anywhere else, also.

Maybe the problem for me is just the choosen icon for Get Info. Is there a standard Get Info icon? If yes, we should use it.

I think we should keep the "right-click on the avatar"-option open for further integration.

I can see a couple of future options:

  • if the user has several avatars, we could let the user choose the prefered one (and store the choice as an  XEP-0209 extension;
  • Copy Avatar to clipboard is useful to be there;
  • Use avatar as address book picture will also make sense.

in reply to: ↑ 2   Changed 5 years ago by dbcm

Replying to jppavao:

I don't find this to be intuitive at all. We already have a Get Info button in the toolbar of every chat window. As for copying stuff to the clipboard with a single click, that's too destructive and unexpected. Imagine the user has some info on the clipboard that isn't available anywhere else. If the avatar is clicked and that info gets trashed to be replaced by a buddy icon, the user will probably be angry enough to trash the client and never touch it again. :)

The copy should only the activated by CMD+C, want i tried to say without success was to do the same as in get info from finder

Or were you referring to something like the menus available on each Flickr avatar, for example? That could probably work. By also adding a small circular flat and gray "i" button somewhere in the window (as a shortcut for Get Info), we could be able to ditch the toolbar entirely and save some screen real-estate.

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