[OTR-dev] Pidgin plugin development and GUI look

[Ian Goldberg]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:01:08PM +0200, hcat at gmx.net wrote:
> > One of the issues identified in the user study is that people
> > couldn't figure out how to get to the "Authenticate buddy" menu
> > item.  With the button, you needed to right-click on the button to
> > bring up the context menu, which stymied a number of people.  They
> > suggested to move it to a menu (for which (left-)clicking is the
> > obvious way to pull down a menu), so that's what we did.
>
> Why the right click? (Left-)Clicking the "OTR: <status>" like Patrik
> linked would just display a small menu just like the formatting and
> insert "toolbar buttons" do.

Yes, it could, but that's not what the linked-to patch does, is all I'm
saying.

> Well, the OTR menu item could even stay in the menu bar (minus the
> icon, which looks a bit alien there anyway) and the "OTR: <status>"
> could just display the status down in the toolbar.

How would you show multiple conversations?  If we could figure this out,
someone could try to add it at least as an option.

   - Ian