Etan Reisnerwrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:40:07AM +0100, David Balazic wrote: > > Hi! > > > > This just happened to me in a MSN conversation: > > - I type a message (looking at my keyboard) > > - I press ENTER > > - I look at the screen > > > > And my message was not anywhere. I thought it's the focus problem > > again, so I retyped the message and sent it again. > > > > Then after a few moments, both messages appeared in the > conversation. > > > > The problem: after pressing ENTER to send message, it disappears > > >From the typing area, but does not appears in the > conversation area. > > For a few moments (that can be several seconds, I gues it depends > > On netwrok conditions) the message is lost, at least it appears like > > That for the user. > > > > Please do something about this. Either the message should appear > > Instantly or some special hint should be displayed, that the message > > Is "pending" or similar. > > > > Thanks. > > > > David > > > > PS: I use 2.4.0 on Windows XP. > > On protocols that send the message back to you (which I'm assuming MSN > does) displaying the message before we hear back from the server isn't > really the right thing to do, imagine the case where the > message triggers > an error, or is silently dropped by the server (which MSN > likes to do for > some messages) you are then presented with a scenario where > you have told > the user it was sent correctly but now need to rescind that > indication and > present them with an error, as opposed to being able to > simply not display > the sent message and instead display the error. > > That being said, I am open to suggestions that will satisfy > both parts of > this.
Simple ;-) After user sends the message, display a "Message pending/processing" note, similar to the typing notification. When the message arrived, Remove the notification and show the real text (or the error, if any). Regards, David _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
