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Private chat "Player" is typing.

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This is a feature request. Feature requests can be voted up by supporters.
Current Priority: +259
Topic Starter
WingSilent
When you are in private chat, it's usefull to see by a message on a side or a special tab color if the other player is typing...

or with a "..." icon?

Good idea?
izzydemon
clearly nobody is liking your idea so why did you waste 23 stars here
Knarf
I would rather keep it simple :?
Topic Starter
WingSilent

SnowStorm wrote:

clearly nobody is liking your idea so why did you waste 46 stars here
Because I barely never look around here.

So i wasted 46 stars to attract a lot of opinions.
And no this is too early to say this is useless.

Wait more posts.

kookookook wrote:

I would rather keep it simple :?
So, just having a chat tab color change or slowly flashing to guess the player is typing?
AmberLynx
Would be a good idea if osu!'s a chat software. But it's not. I don't see a significant need for it to be added.
Rei Hakurei
maybe for client to client i support it, but as this is supports external chat, then let's wait
deadbeat
you're gonna be sad, when i tell you that this is a duplicate xD
and for some reason, i can search to find the original :<
Raging Bull
But now this one probably has more priority than old one? :D
NixXSkate

SnowStorm wrote:

clearly nobody is liking your idea so why did you waste 23 stars here
i think it's a good idea
deadbeat

Raging Bull wrote:

But now this one probably has more priority than old one? :D
no, it got denied iirc

edit: for what it's worth, i'm having troubling locating said request ;__;
TheVileOne
Lets just use this one. It's a good idea and I support.
XPJ38
The question is: does IRC -the protocol- support this feature? I am not sure.
[Luanny]

salted_nuts wrote:

Would be a good idea if osu!'s a chat software. But it's not. I don't see a significant need for it to be added.
My thoughts
DakeDekaane

XPJ38 wrote:

The question is: does IRC -the protocol- support this feature? I am not sure.
afaik it doesn't.

Even if it supports it, what's the point of knowing if the other person is typing or not?
TheVileOne
Because
some people
like chatting like this.

Myself included.
TicClick

TheVileOne wrote:

Because
some people
like chatting like this.

Myself included.
then they do not need a notification saying that they are about to send two more words
and then two more again
because they will do it fast enough
and again it doesn't even need a notification

I am certain of it
XPJ38

TheVileOne wrote:

Because
some people
like chatting like this.

Myself included.


Nah, it's definitely not a good idea :P
TheVileOne
I've never been silenced. I type like that only I type in half paragraphs.
Tshemmp
I'd like this.
puncia
I'm going to throw some star to this if someone confirm it's actually possible to implement this feature with IRC.
deadbeat
if this ever gets added, i am so just gonna type in something, then just go do something else >:D
Rei Hakurei
as the text input per channel is shared, so it would be hard to sync whether the client is:
- opening the chat
- opening the tab where PM with someone

sounds like sending a signal to other client that "{Someone} is Typing..."
deadbeat
t/46013
t/120192

wow, that was much easier to find now that i can search again >_>

though since the other support team members seem to want to keep this open, i'll leave it as such
Topic Starter
WingSilent
Still a cool suggestion to add only when you chat with someone and not into a whole channel. No negative points.
Mira-san
Another way to know if someone is ignoring you. gg.
Aquamarine
:!:

SnowStorm wrote:

clearly nobody is liking your idea so why did you waste 23 stars here
I'm adding 24 stars [divided by 2] only because of this post.
Kitsunemimi
I'm going to say no again on this one, because a) this type of feature isn't natively supported by irc and will require network + Bancho reworking and b) while I typically prefer having this feature on personal IM clients, it's a different story when you're talking to various people online. Sometimes I run into conversations where I need to think of what I want to say carefully, and the way it is right now, I can type out bits of my sentences while pretending to be afk/looking at another tab/otherwise not fully focused on constructing my statement. Now this may not exactly apply to all people but, uh... this does:
c) there's no space to put the 'user is typing' message. Unless you shove in a little "User is typing..." line in between your input line and the last line in chat whenever they start typing. But that would look really stupid because it would move all of the chatted text whenever the message appeared. If you don't want the chat to move and simply leave it spaced one line up, that doesn't work either because there's no medium, the chat interface is just one darkened area, and it would be inconsistent with the main chat in public channels. Instead of having the message at the bottom, and having a (...) thing appear on the right side when the person is typing, would also be inconsistent with the style of the interface, and right justified stuff sucks anyways. So the only place left to have the notification is on the chat tab, but the purpose of the chat tab colours is to indicate whether there's a new message, so having it flash to people who start typing would make it look like there's a new message already, plus it's so disconnected from where you're actually looking (the bottom of the chat), that people would never bother looking at it and it would be virtually useless anyways.

Basically, the design of irc simply makes this idea not work.
Synthox_old
NO!
I hate this whole "is typing".
Ruidoso
Why people are so "no way, not in your life" about this? It's a great feature, I mean why not
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