Kurt's commentary after compiling on Arch

[Dhwty]

Build information:
$ pacman -Q cmake qt4 qt5-base gcc
cmake 2.8.11.2-1
qt4 4.8.5-1
qt5-base 5.0.2-2
gcc 4.8.1-1

General packaging suggestions:

• Package a .zip for Windows and a .tar.(b/g)z for linux. A base linux install neither has an unZIPper nor unRARer.
• Name the package with some combination of the version number and filename (The executable is called flist_messenger, so the archive should not be called fchatX.X.X.zip).
• Allow the passing of option flags, although the default of relative paths should be kept, to allow for -DLibjsonDir=X, -DLogPath=X, -DSoundPath=X and -DSettingsPath=X. This would allow a full linux installation through a package manager. The current setup gives a catch-22; the executable and settings must be in the same dir, but only binaries can go in /usr/bin and no binaries can go in /etc.

0.8.4 bugs:

• Double datestamping, the leftmost only occurring after the chat pane is refreshed by changing tabs or clicking the same tab already loaded. ([18:41:44] [6:41 PM] Reggie Cole: Welcome back.) [Bug not present in 0.9.0]

0.9.0 bugs:

• Clicking console button on left directly after connect causes 'X Connected. Welcome. Running F-Chat... Enjoy your stay...' to disappear.
• Unable to right click on any of the buttons down the left hand column to close the tabs.
• Help>Help/Help>About do nothing.
• Chat window is still called "F-chat messenger - Login"
• Leave/Join notices are displayed even when the 'Display leave/join notices' box is unchecked.
• Away indicator doesn't look very good on the white background of the friends list (looks blurry compared to all others).
• Add user/Remove buttons for ignore list different sizes.
• Being at the bottom of the chat window (so it scrolls) and then switching tab and switching back causes you to no longer be autoscrolling in that window.
• Again crashed during use. ([1] 10572 segmentation fault (core dumped) ./flist_messenger) [again, it was on a friend connecting, I think.]
• PMs are received, but the message window stays blank (tab appears, is turned green). Window button is not flashed at all.

Feature differences:
On Windows, if a message comes through and the application is not focussed, the taskbar icon is highlighted indefinitely. On Linux, it appears to always blink ten times. I notice that "http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/qt5-stable/qtgui/qwindow.html" has the following excerpt:

void QWindow::alert(int msec) [slot]
Causes an alert to be shown for msec miliseconds. If msec is 0 (the default), then the alert is shown indefinitely until the window becomes active again. In alert state, the window indicates that it demands attention, for example by flashing or bouncing the taskbar entry. This function was introduced in QtGui 5.1.

Perhaps this can be implemented to provide feature parity, given Qt 5.1 just got released and should be rolling out to all platforms very soon.

Feature Requests:
The ability to save two channels= options, one per character. Perhaps Character_Name-channels=?

[kythyria]

Re the paths thing; QDesktopServices::storageLocation() should be used to find where to put the settings and log files when creating them.

The following items can be crossed off:

• Lack of effect when right clicking tabs
• Help and About not working
• Chat window having the wrong title
• Join/Leave being displayed when they shouldn't
• Autoscrolling ceasing to work

[Dhwty]

Bleh. Why did this not have tickboxes? Marked those off.

[aliciasprig]

I'm marking off the following

• PMs not appearing. This is Other people talking in channels does not print messages. #33 and marked off as only affecting 0.9.0
• "Again crashed during use ... it was on a friend connecting" This probably also only affects 0.9.0. Open a new issue if it occurs in 0.9.1+
• Clicking console buttone causing the welcoming text to disappear. This is also a 0.9.0 only issue.