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Key: VWR-2792
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Resolved Resolved
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: Normal Normal
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: Domchi Underwood
Votes: 2
Watchers: 0
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Change chat tabs with unread messages to non-blinking

Created: 19/Oct/07 09:34 AM   Updated: 10/Apr/08 08:51 AM
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Component/s: Chat/IM, User Interface
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 1.19.0 Release Candidate

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Linden Lab Issue ID: DEV-3084


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The blinking chat tabs are terribly distracting - can you please change tabs with unread chatter from blinking to simply colored (for example color them orange)?

If anyone needs arguments... there is a reason why HTML blink tag is considered bad and why no sane web designer uses it.

It might even offer slight performance improvement since they don't need to redraw constantly.



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Lex Neva added a comment - 19/Oct/07 10:23 AM
I'd be in favor of this.

Coyote Pace added a comment - 19/Oct/07 02:03 PM
I have to disagree, I'm afraid – the blinking is very useful to me, at least. If anything, I suppose yet another preference setting would be fine: Unread IM tabs blink? Change color? Both? etc.

More differentiation among the various IM windows would be a very good idea in general, however. I'd like to see the tab (or subpage) for the active IM window be made a LOT more obvious, perhaps through reversal of the tab colors, a special color, or something of the sort.

Similarly, another thing that needs improvement is the way that IM windows' tabs are shown when scrolled off the sides of the Communicate list. When there's more than a few tabs, activity in those not immediately visible is very hard to determine visually – and new incoming IMs can be easily missed entirely.


Domchi Underwood added a comment - 19/Oct/07 03:12 PM
Coyote is right - setting might be way to go. The ultra mega cool way I'd like to see is to have it blink a few times, and then turn bright and slowly fade away as the time passes, until it settles on a color which is still different enough from tab with read messages.

Alexa Linden added a comment - 30/Oct/07 03:42 PM
W/ update 1.19.0 (next voice update)

Alexa Linden added a comment - 30/Oct/07 04:13 PM
DEV-3084 is the internal Jira that covers this issue

Gigs Taggart added a comment - 28/Nov/07 04:12 PM
Oops, this one really is fixed internally.

Fluf Fredriksson added a comment - 06/Dec/07 06:01 AM
Does that mean we will in some time in the future get a setting choice?

WarKirby Magojiro added a comment - 22/Dec/07 01:09 PM
I've changed all fixed internally issues to Resolved: Fix pending.

Winter Ventura added a comment - 08/Feb/08 02:43 PM - edited
how the H*** did a jira entry with 2... TWO VOTES make it into the release candidate?

Please see: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-4575
For the grassroots movement (with 26 votes already) to UNDO this.


wildefire walcott added a comment - 08/Feb/08 03:00 PM
What the... I had no idea this was a requested feature. It really hurts hearing-impaired residents, because new IMs are very hard to detect now, visually. If people really hate the flashing so much, could we have a UI option to disable flashing (but leave flashing on by default for the hearing impaired and others who rely on the flashing) instead of just taking it away altogether?

Torley Linden added a comment - 11/Feb/08 08:56 AM
I saw this, and will followup in VWR-4575.

Phantom Ninetails added a comment - 27/Mar/08 03:00 AM - edited
HOLY.. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! Jeeze, and in just two votes! Seriously! There are real issues that have ALOT more votes and actually need fixing, that still aren't getting fixed.. This is something that should not have happenned.

Lex Neva added a comment - 10/Apr/08 08:51 AM
For the record, I wish I never voted on this. I wanted some kind of noticeable color, not just a stealthy hilight. An option would be nice, too.