IM reply target gets replaced by Wing member?

Terry Bruge-Hiplo

Terry Bruge-Hiplo
Suppose you're in a text chat conversation with CMDR X over comms. You're winged up with CMDR Y.

  • CMDR X sends you a direct message. You type /r ... to set the reply target to the sender of the message. Great. Love it.
  • CMDR Y sends a message in Wing chat. You type /w ... to reply to Wing. Great. No problems here.

But then...


  • CMDR X sends you a direct message. Then CMDR Y sends a message in Wing chat before you reply. Now when you type /r, it targets CMDR Y instead of CMDR X.

Does that seem right to you? I'm not sure whether it used to do that, or does since 1.6/2.1. Didn't want to bug report until I was sure. Either way, I think it reduces the usefulness of context switching chat shortcuts and makes conversing with multiple parties difficult.

Expected behaviour (maybe I'm wrong here):

/r ... replies the last direct message
/w ... replies to the Wing
 
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Terry Bruge-Hiplo

Terry Bruge-Hiplo
MickyG1982 said:
Press tab to cycle through conversation targets.
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Really? Well, I'll be jiggered. I'll give it a go. Thanks.

(Still, not sure it makes sense that the Wing message sender becomes the first target...)

CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
I find the whole chat system clunky and stupid. Lol
I'd prefer a tab system, so you can have wing, local, and several private chat open at the same time. If you want of course.
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Melikey tabs. Tight space to put them though :D
 
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CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Terry Bruge-Hiplo said:
Melikey tabs. Tight space to put them though :D
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Meh, there's room if it's done well. Lol

Some less used options can move to one of the other panels.
Like Emails. We rarely receive any.
All we need is a notification. The actual email could be in the transaction tab for example.
That frees up a second tab.
Friends could be there too.

Or, have all communications in the left panel.
But you select which one(s) you'd most like to see in the comms panel, which you can tab through.
You'll then see all related messages, and everything else will just show as a notification.


Maybe this needs a separate thread. lol
 

Terry Bruge-Hiplo

Terry Bruge-Hiplo
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
Maybe this needs a separate thread. lol
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Haha, it's cool. I'm thinking about the way the panels work in terms of navigation now. So, there's six navigation buttons available: up/down/left/right/prev tab/next tab.

Out of those, prev tab/next tab, and up/down are already used by the parent comm panel and the chat window itself. That leaves left/right available for switching conversation targets...

It could work exactly how the tab key works now according to MickyG1982 and wouldn't require any UI layout changes. Alternatively add a visual sub-tab for each conversation type along the top, under the panel icons and visual clues to indicate which conversation sub-tab you're on. Could have message counts on the tabs too.

Then again, just having /r always reply to direct messages instead of whoever last spoke in whatever chat context would be great. Isn't that how it worked in 2.0?
 
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