[Psi-devel] Re: Re: Re: 'Always show self contact' disappeared

[Robert R. Wal]

On 04.09.21 Remko Troncon pressed the following keys:

> > I disagree. I constantly switch "show offline" (and only once changed 
> > "show self-contact"). 
> 
> I constantly switch 'show self contact' too, and only once changed 'show
> away contacts' in my life. The only difference between 'show self
> contact' and 'show away contacts' is perhaps that one usually has the
> former off and the latter on. So maybe the defaults should change ?

You don't have much contacts, do you? I have meager 74 contacts and without
``show away contacts'' set to OFF I couldn't manage my roster.

> A better comparison might be the 'Show/hide Transports': this is one
> that i never change (unless Psi turns it back on automatically, which is
> really a pain :( ), and that most people probably want set to 'off' by
> default. This also affects the roster items, and also isn't in the
> options.

Unless you are also admin of jabber server and you have to supervise (quite
unreliable) jit and gg transports, nagged by users whenever they're off.

> Anyway, if there's consensus that the option should come back, i can
> always put it back, but i think that this is more 'logical' (i.e. all
> show/hide toggles that affect the roster grouped in one combobox,
> optionally having a button for each in the roster), and that only one way of
> changing this is a better thing. 
> 
> In short, these are possible things to do (not mutual exclusive):
> - Introduce the 'show self contact' as an option again, breaking some
>   logic with other toggles that aren't in the options.
> - Change the default of 'show self contact' to 'false'
> - Add the 'show/hide toggles' in the Psi main menu.

Yes, please. I like my roster slick and clean, so I've thrown away all the
options that I can set via menu. The only two that left are ``show away''
and ``show transports''. If I could access them via menu, I'd got rid of
them too.

Robert

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