GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 710705
Indicate number of users in the headerbar
Last modified: 2014-02-27 17:48:40 UTC
Created attachment 257897 [details] mockups Sometimes it's useful to see how many people are in a room: * It tells you if you have entered the channel name incorrectly. * If you are in a channel with a small number of people, and want to know if people are around. I've attached some design experiments.
I kind of favor dropping the icon completely and have it just state the number in a button (#2 without the icon). It's not obvious at first, but the icon really doesn't bring that much to the table. It's much cleaner after you're discovered what the button does.
Created attachment 258027 [details] [review] ui: Display number of users in show-user-list button The number of users in a room is useful information (for instance for quick judgement regarding the room's activity), which we currently only expose inside the user list. Replace the icon of the show-user-list button with the number of users to make this information always available.
Hmm, doesn't seem to apply here to master.
Created attachment 258030 [details] [review] ui: Display number of users in show-user-list button Mmmh, no idea - this is a patch version from a separate branch with no additional patches, so should apply now ...
Created attachment 258031 [details] screenshot Looks like a bit too much horizontal padding when the number is large. Also, the number in the headerbar is different from the number in the user list.
Created attachment 270305 [details] [review] ui: Display number of users in show-user-list button (In reply to comment #5) > Looks like a bit too much horizontal padding when the number is large. Yeah, that's the standard padding for text buttons - this one uses custom padding and should do better. > Also, the number in the headerbar is different from the number in the user list. Yeah, should have been fixed in bug 710655 (and possibly others).
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Looks like a bit too much horizontal padding when the number is large. > > Yeah, that's the standard padding for text buttons - this one uses custom > padding and should do better. I also have an alternative patch which forces the button to be square (e.g. match the icon buttons), but it starts exceeding the desired height when numbers grow too large. We can work around that by render the number to an image and scale appropriately if we want that behavior ...
Attachment 270305 [details] pushed as 017d635 - ui: Display number of users in show-user-list button jimmac-approved, pushing
Created attachment 270500 [details] [review] ui: Display number of users in show-user-list button Attaching the work-in-progress patch for the square button so that it doesn't get lost in case we want to revisit ...