Topic

Popout chat window

I, like most people I'm guessing, like to talk or monitor chat while playing Glitch. The UI for chatting is intuitive enough, but it is also very restrictive. If I look away to read some quest text, or someone starts IMing with me I have to scroll back through the general chat to see where I left off, and then scroll back down.

I was thinking that perhaps a popout chat would be a good solution to this problem. My screen is probably quite a bit larger than most player's (I can literally run two Glitch clients in their largest size side by side with a little bit of room to spare), but I'd bet that there are a lot of us who have free pixels off to the side. It would be nice to be able to fill that extra space with a resizable chat window. Also useful would be a way to display more than one chat field at a time, so I can IM with someone without covering up General, Live Help, or group chat. Having only one active chat visible at a time is killing me!

Posted 15 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink

Replies

  • Agreed. Another possible solution is to implement a Jabber bridge, so that chat clients can connect to Glitch chat. Then you could use any interface that you wanted. Also, player-developers could be free to create our own. 
    Posted 15 months ago by Ustice Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the idea of a popout chat window as well.
    Posted 15 months ago by MisAdventure Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Saw a couple of chat suggestions in the forums today and thought that they would work well with this idea. Bump.
    Posted 15 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like this idea, 

    i would highly recommend it to be working as soon as possible.
     "bump"
    Posted 14 months ago by Roland Conner Subscriber! | Permalink