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So, here are some basic suggestions I just thought of when I installed this program after 5 years and began looking around.
1. Ability to access user info from messages. Say that I have someone random who sends me a message. I should be able to pull up their user info.
Scenario: Someone mesages me letting me know who they are, which matches to someone I already know. I go to add them to my contacts, and cannot! I must know how to spell their name from hearing it alone as no place in the messages view lets me review a username to search, and what if they're offline?
Implementation: On the context menu of messages, conversations etc, there should be a view user info item that opens the same info menu you would get if you clicked on a user in other areas. If this works for mul.tiple people in a conversation, it should be a submenu that lets you pick a user, or perhaps a brief chooser.
2. Programs don't have descriptions.
I went to the install programs list and ran across some programs that I have no idea what they do. YouTube was explanatory enough, as are shooter and for me FFmpeg encoders, file manager etc, but what is saper? Klango archive? With the name alone, and no description giving a basic summary of the program, I'm unsure if I'd want to install it or not.
Implementation: After a program's name in the list a brief description, a few sentences at most, should be spoken. If you like, a larger description, help etc can be added as an extra item to the context menu of a program. This does create more text to localize, but the short description alone should be enough for the moment and relatively manageable.
1. Ability to access user info from messages. Say that I have someone random who sends me a message. I should be able to pull up their user info.
Scenario: Someone mesages me letting me know who they are, which matches to someone I already know. I go to add them to my contacts, and cannot! I must know how to spell their name from hearing it alone as no place in the messages view lets me review a username to search, and what if they're offline?
Implementation: On the context menu of messages, conversations etc, there should be a view user info item that opens the same info menu you would get if you clicked on a user in other areas. If this works for mul.tiple people in a conversation, it should be a submenu that lets you pick a user, or perhaps a brief chooser.
2. Programs don't have descriptions.
I went to the install programs list and ran across some programs that I have no idea what they do. YouTube was explanatory enough, as are shooter and for me FFmpeg encoders, file manager etc, but what is saper? Klango archive? With the name alone, and no description giving a basic summary of the program, I'm unsure if I'd want to install it or not.
Implementation: After a program's name in the list a brief description, a few sentences at most, should be spoken. If you like, a larger description, help etc can be added as an extra item to the context menu of a program. This does create more text to localize, but the short description alone should be enough for the moment and relatively manageable.