[Psi-Devel] Whiteboard not ready yet

[Justin Karneges]

While the whiteboard engine itself may be all well and good, the presentation 
of the whiteboarding feature in Psi needs some work before I'd consider it 
release quality.

When a whiteboard is session is requested, there is no window or anything to 
indicate that there is an outbound whiteboarding request.  Several times it 
has happened to me, that I click the whiteboard option in the menu of a 
contact, click 'No' on the question about loading an SVG file, and I'm left 
with nothing on the screen (leading me to think that I actually cancelled my 
whiteboarding request).  Then, much later, the remote contact acks the 
request and I suddenly get a whiteboard from nowhere.  Also, there's no way 
to cancel an outbound request.

When a whiteboarding request is received, there is no queued event.  Instead, 
a yes/no prompt is thrown in my face.

For the whiteboard to be ready for prime time, we need:
 - some WbRequestDlg or such, analogous to FileRequestDlg
 - outbound requests are shown visibly and are cancelable
 - a PsiEvent for whiteboard requests, that can be queued in the roster/tray
 - inbound request handler shown when the event is opened

Additionally there are some smaller issues which should probably be addressed:
 - I sometimes experience crashes on accept (still).  I stupidly didn't have 
coredumps enabled last it happened, but I'm willing to do tests with anyone 
to reproduce.
 - I don't like how whiteboards share the chatdlg sizing info.  as a non-tabs 
user, I'd prefer to have groupchats, regular chats, and whiteboards all at 
varying sizes.  this is probably an easy fix, just allocate a new options 
variable for the whiteboard size.
 - There appears to be no indication that the other party has left the 
whiteboard, or at least I couldn't find it.  This is pretty important 
information I think. :)

-Justin