Re: ANNOUNCE: Gossip 0.14

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:48 +0200, Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 08.08.2006, 09:29 +0100 schrieb Martyn Russell:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 10:22 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > > That's indeed a nice feature to have. But maybe it should have a limit on how
> > > old such a message can be. It's a little strange to see a new chat window start
> > > with messages from over a month ago :)
> > 
> > Maybe, but the date is there so you know when it was, I don't see the
> > problem myself. If I start chatting with someone (as I did the other
> > day) that I had not spoken to in a while, I think, man, that was a while
> > back when I last spoke to them.
> > 
> > I have no real preference to be honest, but I can't see a problem with
> > it. At least now it is consistent, if it didn't show the last message
> > sometimes, that might confuse users.
> 
> There was the idea to make the old messages grey or something, so you
> can recognize immediately, if the messages are from this conversation or
> from an old one.
> 
> I think this will solve problems without timeouts/deadlines :)

That might be nice. I've confused myself several times with it. I like
the recall, but the distinction would be nice. Particularly, anything
since I restarted Gossip would be nice to gray. Not sure what the
threshold should be... I regularly close windows, and expect them to be
the same when I reopen.