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peterz
Joined: 09 Jun 2004
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:20 am Post subject: RFC: New channel lis |
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This is a bit of a request for comments. I think the channel list window is getting a bit old and tired. So here's a new mockup GUI.
Current one:
New one:
The "search type" combo box contains 3 items:
1) Simple search (sub string)
2) Pattern match (DOS style wildcard)
3) Regular expression
Any thoughts on the layout? Suggested changes? |
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jlh
Joined: 14 Jul 2004
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Location: Switzerland
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, I'm quite happy with the current one. I don't see why having those different matching style would be useful, as normal regexes can do all you want already.
What I would want is that it would keep the list when you close and reopen it. On some networks you have like 50'000 channels and it takes a long time to load them all again.
Also, a "Regex help" button that opens a quick summary of regexes would be useful. Not everyone knows them, especially in the windows world, and for those that know them it's nice to have a summary if memory is failing. |
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Alchera
Joined: 28 May 2005
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Location: Ballarat Victoria, Australia
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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The new layout is tidier compared to the current one.
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peterz
Joined: 09 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| jlh wrote: | Actually, I'm quite happy with the current one. I don't see why having those different matching style would be useful, as normal regexes can do all you want already.
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I think you answered why, people don't know regexp. It's not exactly common knowledge.
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What I would want is that it would keep the list when you close and reopen it. On some networks you have like 50'000 channels and it takes a long time to load them all again.
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It would need to be cleared at some point, a 50,000 line table takes a fair chunk of memory. |
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By-Tor
Joined: 20 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:32 am Post subject: Re: RFC: New channel |
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| peterz wrote: | | Any thoughts on the layout? Suggested changes? |
It's nice, tidy and should get the job done. I like it.  |
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WyomingPBS
Joined: 16 Oct 2006
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Location: Wyoming
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| jlh wrote: | | What I would want is that it would keep the list when you close and reopen it. On some networks you have like 50'000 channels and it takes a long time to load them all again. |
Yeah, what he said. I just made the switch from kvirc to xchat last night and I'm thrilled with the smaller footprint, but reloading a bazillion channels from a busy server takes forever (clarification: kv has the same problem; I'm not saying "you should make xchat more like kv").
We're already able to save the channel list to a text file... why not simply provide an option reload that file into the channel list / selection dialogue, rather than re-requesting it from the server each time? |
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peterz
Joined: 09 Jun 2004
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Location: Australia
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:29 am Post subject: |
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Brand new channel list window: GtkTreeView, nicer layout, less CPU power when downloading very large list, uses less memory, supports regexp/patternmatch/substring search and supports downloading LIST with minusers to save time (only on some networks that support it).
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This is now working and in CVS. If you can compile CVS easily, give it a go, I'd like to hear your experiences with it. |
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ScotCop
Joined: 30 Sep 2005
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Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Having a simple text match search would be better for new users that dont know regexp and it does the same job but with less hassle of having to learn it for users that are not interested and just want to do what IRC was designed for to chat.
If thats whats your suggesting spot on! 
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kater
Joined: 24 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:31 am Post subject: |
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Hello,
yesterday, i updated my xchat to the last version. i see the nice new channellist window but the minusers is set to 5. in the old verson it was set to 3. i dont like this. so i searched in the cvslog and quickly find the file and the line where this value is set.
recompile and happy
ps. maxuser is now set to 4223  |
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