No way to always show the user list

Not a bug. Sorry.

Err. This is the way you actually propose new features so this is still valid. Sorry again.

Thanks for your report, marking it as wishlist for now, will look upstream, thanks.

The bug upstream : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323488 has been marked as WONTFIX, for seeing the reasons please read the comments there, thanks!.

Oh, well. I guess I'll file a couple more bugs and try to switch to another application then.

Thanks for your time.

Reopening, because I have a patch and Sebastien Bacher said in the upstream report that he could use a patch for the option in Ubuntu.

xchat-gnome (1:0.18-2ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/10_user_list_in_main_window_option.patch:
    - Option to show the user list in the main window.

 -- Matvey Kozhev <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:35:50 +0600

Actually, disregard that for now.

The previous debdiff was broken. Attaching a working one.

The debian/changelog entry is the same.

thanks you for the work, it should be looked by a desktop dev.

Sébastien: could you please take a look at it?

hardy is ui and string frozen now and it would be better if a such change was rather accept upstream, I'm unscribing the sponsor team for now we can reconsider next cycle if upstream doesn't reply

it has been set as wontfix by upstream, is this gets included into ubuntu it fits better to get it for hardy+1 IMO. thanks.

Repacked this for lucid, and fixed a problem in the patch that made the UI freeze after showing and hiding the context menu for the user list.

xchat-gnome (1:0.26.1-1ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * Added debian/patches/20_userlist_panel.patch:
    - Option to make the user list always visible.

 -- Maia Kozheva <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:47:15 +0600

Maia, thanks for your work on this. I have tested the PPA packages, and unfortunately there are some issues. Choosing Discussion->Users (ctrl-U) now brings up an empty window which does not go away.

It seems that not all of the upstream developers are against such an option, so I would encourage you to submit a new patch against their latest git tree.

Would it make sense to simply disable this command when the user list is shown in the main window? I'll modify the patch accordingly.

IMO, it is most intuitive if ctrl-U (or the menu entry) hides/shows (toggles) the user list, but that is a bit inconsistent with the way it works with the pop-up list, where ctrl-U displays it and the escape key dismisses it.

For now, here's an updated debdiff. It hides the menu entry and disables the Ctrl-U combination when the user list is set to be always visible.

thank you for your work there, could you update the change upstream to be rebased on the git version which use gtkbuilder rather than glade though? I'm unsubscribing the sponsors for now because we want to get the gtkbuilder version in lucid and the current change will not apply to that one

It will be nice to have the user list visible all the time as it makes it easy to highlight messages to particular user. I would like to test if you merge the patch upstream.

The patch for the git version is in the upstream bug report. Note, however, that only the preferences dialog has migrated to GtkBuilder so far, and even it retains the .glade extension. Other windows still use libglade.

Has now been fixed upstream

Sorry about the status spam. This has been committed to the upstream repo but is not in an upstream release yet. And since we are past Feature Freeze for Lucid anyway, this will not be fixed in Lucid unless it gets special attention. AFAICS xchat-gnome is not covered by the Gnome FFe, but merged from Debian.

Can someone verify if the version in natty carries this fix? If not, then this should be re-added to sponsors queue to get packaged and included in natty.

XChat-Gnome version 1:0.26.1+git20101206.557c940-0ubuntu3 in natty has an option on the Preferences window to always show the user list, which works.