GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 341901
The "Add a contact" dialog should not be modal
Last modified: 2012-12-10 22:21:06 UTC
When in a "Call history" pop up, the only way to see the actual SIP or H.323 URL is to do a right-click, and then "Add contact to the contact list". The caller's URL is displayed there, but it cannot be copied and pasted for example into the "Chat" window, because the "Add contact" dialog is modal. I think it should not be modal. Even better would be to have the URLs displayed directly in the "Calls history" pop-up. Other information:
Jan, is copying to clipboard by context-menu a way that fits your needs? Jan :-)
Oh, by the way, "Chat" was added to the context menu some weeks ago, too.
Jan, which version should I try? I have compiled the recently released 2.0.4 (together with opal 2.2.4 and pwlib 1.10.3, as linked from the Downloads page at www.ekiga.org), and it looks the same as before: - the "add contact to the address book" pop-up is still modal (altough I can right-click and _C_opy the URL to the clipboard now, which would probably be sufficient[*]). - the "calls history" dialog does not show the SIP URL, - the context menu in the "calls history" dialog contains only "add contact to the address book" and "call contact" items - no "chat" at all. [*] altough from the usability point of view it is awful, because it is different than copying/pasting in every other X application, where just selecting the text by the left button and pasting with the middle button is possible - the chat dialog also requires paste from the right-click menu instead of just a middle button. Thanks, -Yenya
First of all, I didn't change the dialog yet, sorry, maybe it was misleading. > he context menu in the "calls history" dialog contains only "add contact to the > address book" and "call contact" items - no "chat" at all Uhm, maybe it's only in the current HEAD version, yes, I remember, it's only there because we have a complete different internal system. I didn't see 2.0.x branch for a long time, but it should be possible to backport it. > different than copying/pasting in every other X application Right, of course! Sorry for that, I also use that XServer-copy&paste very often. Maybe there is a way to feed both buffers. Will do some reading. *TheBonsai*
TheBonsai, any news?
Should be something done by the engine and the populate_menu stuff - I'm not yet that deep in the engine. I can imagine something I once did in the old system, like - Copy URI to clipboard - Copy EMail to clipboard - Write email - ... Delaying :/
Well, Call history tab presents addresses as of 4.0.0. So the only thing in this bug is to make New contact non modal. Damien, Julien, any opposition?
I would not make it non modal... Julien ? Damien
I wouldn't change its behaviour either.
Why?
Ok then, putting as WONTFIX then (I suppose this is the right resolution status).