Subject appears in chat after every line

[JPi]

If a contact does not set the same subject as you did, Coccinella will show the change in subject every time. This is no bug, but it is an annoying usability issue.

To solve this bug, the chat dialog needs to get a major update to make working with subjects much easier.

Ideas:
* It should be easy to copy a subject.
* It should be easy to reply to a specific message.
* Filter messages by subject (on the fly).

Related: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/directed-answers

Original report: "After setting the Subject in a new chat. Every time ENTER is pressed the Subject is printed into the chat area in green."

[sander (s-devrieze)]

What would be the right behavior? Actually, it was intentionally designed to behave like you describe. These are the current possibilities:

1) Enter subject and press Return-->sends subject to your contact and it shows it has been sent in the chat overview, cursor moves to chat input field (Use case subject: "Planned discussion: sales figures August 2009"-->your contact can immediately start the discussion)

2) Enter subject and press Tab-->moves cursor to text input field, subject is not send until you send your first message (Use case: you can initiate the discussion *and* you can ask the first question/make the first remark/etc)

[JPi (ajuanpi)]

First of all, I think this app. is great super-useful.
I understand the behavior you wanted to give, that is perfect!
The problem is that EVERYTIME I press ENTER while chatting (not
setting the subject) the Subject gets printed in the chat area.

Please look at the printout of the chat session (is in spanish), you
can see there that the subject was set every time I sent a message
over the chat.

Thanks

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM, sander <email address hidden> wrote:
> What would be the right behavior? Actually, it was intentionally
> designed to behave like you describe. These are the current
> possibilities:
>
> 1) Enter subject and press Return-->sends subject to your contact and it
> shows it has been sent in the chat overview, cursor moves to chat input
> field (Use case subject: "Planned discussion: sales figures August
> 2009"-->your contact can immediately start the discussion)
>
> 2) Enter subject and press Tab-->moves cursor to text input field,
> subject is not send until you send your first message (Use case: you can
> initiate the discussion *and* you can ask the first question/make the
> first remark/etc)
>
> ** Changed in: coccinella
>       Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: coccinella
>     Assignee: (unassigned) => sander (s-devrieze)
>
> --
> Subject appears in chat after every line
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432602
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Coccinella: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> After setting the Subject in a new chat. Every time ENTER is pressed the Subject is printed into the chat area in green.
>

--
JuanPi
"Research begins with the unknown and ends with the unknowable."

[sander (s-devrieze)]

I cannot reproduce the issue. Can you give additional information?

1) What operating system are you using? Are you using an official Coccinella binary or a third-party binary?

2) Can you describe in detail what you exactly type and click? Is it possible that you always remove the subject line after the first post? The subject will be send when it changes; it also sends a blank subject line to indicate the discussion is ended. Maybe this is the problem; a usability bug?

[JPi (ajuanpi)]

Thanks for your time,
1) Ubuntu 8.04 kernel 2.6.24-24-generic
I am unsing the binaries downloaded from the Coccinella webpage, version 0.96.12

2)
. Log in
. Double click on contact
. Click on subject field
. Type in new subject
. Click on message field
. Write message
. Press ENTER
. Wait for answer
....
. Write message
. Press ENTER
. Wait for answer
....
. Write message
. Press ENTER
. Wait for answer

I ever click on the subject field again or change the subject.
According to your explanation, the behavior observed is that the
discussion is initiated every time I send a message and finished with
the next message.
MSG
Subjet :XXX
MSG
Subject:
MSG
Subjet :XXX
...

Shall I try compiling it for my system?

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:28 PM, sander <email address hidden> wrote:
> I cannot reproduce the issue. Can you give additional information?
>
> 1) What operating system are you using? Are you using an official
> Coccinella binary or a third-party binary?
>
> 2) Can you describe in detail what you exactly type and click? Is it
> possible that you always remove the subject line after the first post?
> The subject will be send when it changes; it also sends a blank subject
> line to indicate the discussion is ended. Maybe this is the problem; a
> usability bug?
>
> ** Changed in: coccinella
>       Status: Invalid => Incomplete
>
> --
> Subject appears in chat after every line
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432602
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Coccinella: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> After setting the Subject in a new chat. Every time ENTER is pressed the Subject is printed into the chat area in green.
>

--
JuanPi
"Research begins with the unknown and ends with the unknowable."