Some users think that toast popups (epecially presence popups) are way too big and stays for too long on the screen. Attached are Presence Popup and Message Popup. It seems that in the popup Spark is trying to show whole image. This could be even worse if someone would set a really big image as avatar. Maybe it should show the same size as set in contact list, or 32x32 at least. And there is lots of space (white under avatar and nickname, blue - the header of popup window) which can be reduced. It would be great if Presence popup would look like Message popups. Though message popups could use some unneeded space reducing too. Also, Presence popup staying time is way to long. You need one sec to understand the change of presence. No need to show it for ~5 secs. It gets really irritating while browsing/editing and trying to scroll down with scroll button. Then you have to wait for these nasty toasts to dissapear. Presence popups could have close button too (unless staying time would be reduced to one sec e.g.)
1. Make Presence Popups smaller, more efficient space use. 2. Make Presence Popups' staying time shorter - ~1 sec. 3. Make an Option in Notifications Preferences - Popups stay until you close them. 3.1. Make a Close button for Presence Popups.
Adapted an old patch by Niklas Schaefer from https://community.igniterealtime.org/message/183725#183725 It only changes Online/Offline notifications toast popups and also adds a spinner to select how long it should be shown. Default value is 1, and it is a bit to fast. But i haven't find a way to change it to say 2 without rewriting big part of code.
wroot November 26, 2008 at 3:16 AM
there is a patch by Niklas here http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/message/183725#183725 though it needs some touch. Presence popups are smaller now and one can set a time for it to stay. Also there is a close button in a such popup. Though it seems that a time interval is affecting the speed of appearing. Probably it should affect the time the popup is actually staying on top at its full size.
discussion: http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/thread/31917
Some users think that toast popups (epecially presence popups) are way too big and stays for too long on the screen. Attached are Presence Popup and Message Popup. It seems that in the popup Spark is trying to show whole image. This could be even worse if someone would set a really big image as avatar. Maybe it should show the same size as set in contact list, or 32x32 at least. And there is lots of space (white under avatar and nickname, blue - the header of popup window) which can be reduced. It would be great if Presence popup would look like Message popups. Though message popups could use some unneeded space reducing too. Also, Presence popup staying time is way to long. You need one sec to understand the change of presence. No need to show it for ~5 secs. It gets really irritating while browsing/editing and trying to scroll down with scroll button. Then you have to wait for these nasty toasts to dissapear. Presence popups could have close button too (unless staying time would be reduced to one sec e.g.)
1. Make Presence Popups smaller, more efficient space use.
2. Make Presence Popups' staying time shorter - ~1 sec.
3. Make an Option in Notifications Preferences - Popups stay until you close them.
3.1. Make a Close button for Presence Popups.