955593 - Improve styling of participant count in awesometab

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Other, enhancement)

Description

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 2154 at 2013-09-06 11:44:00 UTC ***

How about a badge (like what we do for unread messages) overlaying the big MUC icon on the left?

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 2154 at 2013-09-06 12:02:00 UTC ***

I also think the participant count should somehow be displayed in the area occupied by the large MUC icon.

I wonder if we even need the number at all (could we instead display a different icon for the various values of Math.round(Math.log(participantCount))?

Comment 2

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 2154 at 2013-09-06 12:06:21 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #1)
> I wonder if we even need the number at all (could we instead display a
> different icon for the various values of
> Math.round(Math.log(participantCount))?

The only problem with not showing the number is that the user might want to compare against what she knows is "expected" for that channel?

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 2154 at 2013-09-06 12:26:56 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #2)

> compare against what she knows is "expected" for that channel?

I doubt this is a real use case.

If we remove the participant count in the awesome tab, we should possibly remove it too in the general MUC UI, and just display the different MUC icons based on the participant count there too. Maybe with a tooltip showing the actual number.

Comment 4

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 2154 at 2013-09-06 12:31:27 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #3)
> If we remove the participant count in the awesome tab, we should possibly
> remove it too in the general MUC UI, and just display the different MUC icons
> based on the participant count there too. Maybe with a tooltip showing the
> actual number.

How about a badge displaying the number with the background colour shade determined by log(number).

Comment 5

[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.

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.