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Feature #716

Alternate Backlog Retrieval System - Timelines

Added by FoxBlitzz almost 15 years ago. Updated over 14 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Quassel Client
Target version:
-
Start date:
06/05/2009
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
OS:
Any

Description

The current system that the Quassel client uses to perform backlog retrieval has a problem in that you must continuously scroll up more and more in order to go back further in the logs, which will also increase memory usage since none of the text is ever cleared from memory.

Instead, I propose an entirely different system. Under normal circumstances, it will act just like any other IRC client in that it will only keep X amount of lines within the chat window, discarding lines from memory as they reach this limit. To access the backlog, the user will click a button that brings up a slider with which the user can select a date (and perhaps time), possibly with the option to also type in the date more precisely, and the client will discard all chat window lines and then download and display the chat text for the requested time period. The scroll bar will then be able to request more lines as per the current behavior, except it will also dynamically discard data to avoid high memory usage. When the user wants to leave this backlog mode, they click a button labeled "LIVE", much like the DVR systems available for television, or simply drag the slider all the way to the current date.

I see this as a safer, more user-friendly way to approach Quassel's novelty, where every chat buffer is essentially a giant log. And if we're going by this approach, we might as well make it easier to look through, right?

History

#1 Updated by DevUrandom over 14 years ago

I do not like this idea. I often scroll up in the chatwindow to look at the lines that were written a bit ago, to catch up with the conversation. Or I search for a discussion about some topic, without knowing when it actually happened.

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