[Psi-devel] Psi 0.11-RC1

[Michał Jazłowiecki]

Wolfgang Illmeyer wrote:

> Finally, I also miss the status messages displayed under the contact names. I 
> don't know if this has ever been in an offical release

In official releases of Psi prior to Psi-0.11 test releases - no. 
Psi-0.11-test1 was the first one to include it.


> but there were some 
> patches in the gentoo ebuild some time ago, which achieved this

There were at least two different patch lines that did that. The first 
one was introduced in long time abandoned Psi-SkZ private build made by 
Jacek Konieczny (Skazi), the other appeared in other private build 
called Psi-pedrito.

> but I guess 
> that will have to wait until 0.12, if you consider implementing that at all.

We have considered this for a long time and we are proud to inform you 
that Psi-0.11-RC1 has status messages in roster, and final Psi-0.11 will 
have them too.

Please take a look at toolbar button configuration 
(Psi|Options|Toolbars). Among the available toolbar buttons there is one 
named "Show Status Messages". If you add it to your toolbar, then you 
will be able to switch on and off the display of status messages in your 
roster.

If you are not happy with default setup (status messages on the same 
line of the contact's display name), you can alter this behaviour by 
editing options.xml file (Psi should not be running by that time), which 
is located in the same directory as config.xml file (see 
http://psi-im.org/wiki/Configuration_File article in Psi Wiki for 
details). The options.xml is an XML file (as the name suggests); you are 
looking for <single-line> tag (it's inside the 
<options><options><ui><contact-list><status-messages> tag).

Please note, however, that on some occasions status messages below the 
contact's display names cause some visual bugs that we're still trying 
to resolve. There is no configuration for the style the status messages 
are displayed yet, but it may become available after Psi-0.11 release.


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Michał Jazłowiecki (michalj)
Psi Forum & Wiki Moderator