Bug 671192

Summary:	Poor User Experience (UX) with current Gnome-shell front-end for Empathy
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Onyeibo Oku <twohotis>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	gindar, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Onyeibo Oku 2011-01-20 17:57:17 UTC

Description of problem:
I posted my observations at the gnome-shell mailing list earlier

The Gnome-shell front-end for Empathy looks promising but at present its visuals is a bit confusing. It is also not playing nice with empathy.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.91.5


How reproducible:
Presently on the current jhbuild branch

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Gnome-shell with 'jbuild build'
2. Run Gnome-shell as specified on the website
3. Start Empathy and engage in a chat session ... observe.
  
Actual results:
After a chat session with a friend while running Gnome-shell, I decided to illustrate my previous suggestions.  I have attached a screenshot of my chat (with his permission) here:
http://picturepush.com/public/4899595

My observations once again >>
1. Its hard to differentiate between my text and his.
2. The gradients behind the text are supposed to fix the problem in #1 but they don't do that effectively.  They add to the visual chaos.

Expected results:
My Suggestion ... see:
http://picturepush.com/public/4899601
1. I think coloured and/or bold text will do it better
2. Feature requests:  Add the fading to the top of the text scroll as the text leaves the chat dialogue. Make the Icon more prominent, indent text to the right if necessary, to allow an enhanced icon.  If it sticks out, COOOOOL!. 

Additional info:
There seems to be a 'battle of wills' going on between the two ...about who gets to be seen.  Empathy wants to show its face sometimes and when it succeeds there is usually a quirky performance in Gnome-shell. The front-end removes the clutter (floating dialogues add to visual madness!).  However, the front-end looks dead and robotic without the emoticons and colours.

Comment 1 Onyeibo Oku 2011-12-02 17:46:40 UTC

Almost there!  I'm loving the new indented and gray posts for clarity.  Can colours be tweaked? I mean, this is just great as it is.  The avatar image on the chat accounts don't show up yet on the toaster front-end notifier -- and the image-stub (place-holder) is not sticking out as suggested here: http://picturepush.com/public/4899601.

BUT I CAN LIVE WITH THE PRESENT ... Great Job!

Comment 2 Onyeibo Oku 2011-12-02 17:47:44 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

> BUT I CAN LIVE WITH THE PRESENT ... Great Job!

Forgot to mention:  The last report was based on UX on Fedora-16

Comment 3 Onyeibo Oku 2012-04-25 04:03:26 UTC

this report is not getting attention:

Any chance of having an avatar/image on the toaster notifier?

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 16:36:30 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19