Lobby should beep if your nick is mentioned

grrr · Post by **grrr** » December 17th, 2007, 6:56 pm

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.

paris · Post by **paris** » December 17th, 2007, 7:07 pm

very nice idea and yes i think its easy to accomplished:
or not?

hiro hito · Post by **hiro hito** » December 17th, 2007, 7:27 pm

good idea, it's join my idea about time in chat line in lobby, but yours is great

CarpeGuitarrem · Post by **CarpeGuitarrem** » December 18th, 2007, 5:37 am

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.

tsr · Post by **tsr** » December 18th, 2007, 12:59 pm

I agree, and there is a FR for it

/tsr

Clonkinator · Post by **Clonkinator** » December 18th, 2007, 1:09 pm

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?

paris · Post by **paris** » December 18th, 2007, 5:56 pm

Not a problem..people would knew it and if you dont answer can use your whole nick to make you pay attention

Post by **CIB** » December 18th, 2007, 6:03 pm

I say we turn the Wesnoth lobby into an IRC client =)

Clonkinator · Post by **Clonkinator** » December 18th, 2007, 7:08 pm

paris wrote:Not a problem..people would knew it and if you dont answer can use your whole nick to make you pay attention

Ah well...

hagabaka · Post by **hagabaka** » December 19th, 2007, 2:33 am

CIB wrote:I say we turn the Wesnoth lobby into an IRC client =)

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.

hiro hito · Post by **hiro hito** » December 19th, 2007, 10:27 am

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?...

hiro hito · Post by **hiro hito** » December 19th, 2007, 3:31 pm

( 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

Post by **Thrawn** » December 19th, 2007, 5:01 pm

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--

Post by **zookeeper** » December 19th, 2007, 5:07 pm

Thrawn wrote:what if someone's nickname is "the," or "wesnoth"? That would get really annoying for them... <_<

Then they'd probably want to change their nick pretty fast.

Unnheulu · Post by **Unnheulu** » December 19th, 2007, 5:09 pm

Thrawn wrote: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--

Who would have names like that anyway? Its probably the same as if your name is the in IRC.