GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 709843
autoscroll to the bottom when selecting a channel
Last modified: 2013-10-29 18:05:58 UTC
Polari now scrolls to the last thing I've seen in a channel. I don't think we should strive to have the user take in all the information that streams in every channel he's at. It's another OCD burden. We should be fine letting the river of information go by, unless the message is directly targeted at me. Most of the time I am finding myself scrolling manually to the bottom to be able to ask a question. I would only make the exception to not scroll to the bottom in case of a name mention and when doing that, prelight/highlight the line when transitioning to the channel.
Agree. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709850#c2
Created attachment 258469 [details] [review] chatView: Only disable auto-scrolling for highlighted messages We currently stop auto-scrolling for every unread messages. However not all messages are equally important, most are perfectly fine to miss. So don't try to get users to consume every single message, but only stop scrolling at highlighted ones. It's not perfect, but definitively an improvement over the current code, so let's get this in for 3.11.1 ...
Attachment 258469 [details] pushed as 1c054ee - chatView: Only disable auto-scrolling for highlighted messages