Lobby should beep if your nick is mentioned
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Lobby should beep if your nick is mentioned
Since the future development of Wesnoth lobby aims at making xchat obsolete I figure ideas to improve the lobby are always welcome, right?
OK, so what about making the client beep (or play a short wesnothian sound piece) when your nick is mentioned in lobby chat? Xchat, for example, highlights tabs & msg line. No seriously, the lobby already HAS some sound support (player leaving/joining), i just don't think it is that helpful yet.
OK, so what about making the client beep (or play a short wesnothian sound piece) when your nick is mentioned in lobby chat? Xchat, for example, highlights tabs & msg line. No seriously, the lobby already HAS some sound support (player leaving/joining), i just don't think it is that helpful yet.
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I like this. I don't know how easy it is in reality to implement...but it's a good idea. Especially if there's a lot of people in the lobby. And the ears burning indicator doesn't work online, I don't think.
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However, there's a problem with this idea. 'f course, basically the idea is good and shouldn't be too hard to implement, but what do you do if people never call you by your nickname? As an example, my name, Clonkinator. In the lobby I also am named Clonkinator. However, since that is quite a long name I'm often just called Clonk or Clonki. How would that be handled?
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Included with wesnoth source package is a Perl utility named wesnoth-mp-logger.pl, which connects to the lobby and logs the messages to a file or stdout. It wouldn't be hard to write a script to monitor lines from the output and do whatever, including beeping when your name is mentioned. It might be possible to extend it to an IRC proxy to wesnoth lobby too.CIB wrote:I say we turn the Wesnoth lobby into an IRC client =)
maybe there will be a minor problem that our dev can find:
when you are away from keyboard and you want to be "beep" when someone is calling you , you have to turn on UI sounds.... but there are so many "beep" when people log or leave the lobby, that this can be very annoying for us to hear all this sounds?....
maybe "beep" sound shall be seperate from the others UI sound ( like the turn bell sound) or maybe just delete all log/leave lobby' sounds?...
when you are away from keyboard and you want to be "beep" when someone is calling you , you have to turn on UI sounds.... but there are so many "beep" when people log or leave the lobby, that this can be very annoying for us to hear all this sounds?....
maybe "beep" sound shall be seperate from the others UI sound ( like the turn bell sound) or maybe just delete all log/leave lobby' sounds?...
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( sorry for the double post)
I wanted to remind our dev that i post many sound here
So many of this sound could be nice for the "beep" or something else
I wanted to remind our dev that i post many sound here
So many of this sound could be nice for the "beep" or something else
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what if someone's nickname is "the," or "wesnoth"? That would get really annoying for them... <_<
I kinda think having a /ping user command would be useful though--
I kinda think having a /ping user command would be useful though--
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this goes for they're/their/there as well
this goes for they're/their/there as well