954157 - Unable to combine buddies into a contact if offscreen

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Contacts window, defect)

Description

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 722 at 2011-03-05 15:21:00 UTC ***

When two buddies are offscreen I'm unable to combine them into a buddy since the buddy list does not scroll while dragging a buddy.  When you get near the top/bottom of the buddy list (while dragging a buddy) the buddy list should start to scroll up/down to show the hidden parts of the buddy list.

Comment 2

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

Attachment: WIP

*** Original post on bio 722 as attmnt 2398 at 2013-04-21 15:48:00 UTC ***

WIP

The code was adapted from "checkForMagicScroll" in http://lxr.instantbird.org/instantbird/source/instantbird/content/accounts.js#660

The scroll speed constant is not read from the preferences as with the default value (increment: 20) the scrolling was way too fast. Maybe we could use a fraction (e.g. 1/3) of this pref instead?

Should it accelerate if the scroll area on top and bottom of the list (it's actually a notification box) is hovered for a while to make navigating long lists easier?

Known problems: only scrolls if dragging over a contact. Dragging over a group will stop the scrolling, even when in the scroll

Comment 3

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 722 at 2013-04-21 16:09:22 UTC ***

Ignore the trailing ", even when in the scroll"-bit, please :(

Comment 4

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Comment on attachment 8354165 [details] [diff] [review]
WIP

*** Original change on bio 722 attmnt 2398 at 2013-10-03 21:33:20 UTC was without comment, so any subsequent comment numbers will be shifted ***

Comment 5

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Comment on attachment 8354165 [details] [diff] [review]
WIP

*** Original change on bio 722 attmnt 2398 at 2013-10-03 21:46:03 UTC ***

This looks reasonable and seems to work, can we make this scroll over contacts also (seems to be x-ib-contact) and when scrolling over groups.

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.