Digsby-ToGo current issues
June 16th, 2008 by Dave
This is a list of the current known issues with DTG:
- When there are not any IM windows open, the contact list will be blank and offer no indication that there are not any open windows.
- When a window is closed locally, the remote client does not remove the page. This functionality is expected, however the ability to Send still exists, even though is will fail.
- There is a case where a window cannot be located even when the window cache is built, I’m working to find this one.
- When another session is created, or the session is cleared, you may receive the You have been logged out. Message more than once.
- If there is an error contacting the web server (From the bridge), that message will be lost. I am working to build a queue so requests are never lost.
- There is no visual indication in the IM window that DTG is active. I’m working to build a solution that would show this visually without getting in the way.
- There is not any indication when a new IM comes in to the remote client. I’m looking for a solution to this.
- Internet Explorer is not supported by the remote client: This is expected, since the site is currently Gecko/WebKit specific. I will be building a desktop-browser solution soon. If anyone is willing to help with this (looking for someone experience in building pretty websites), let me know.
- The client constantly reconnects every X (likely 5 minutes) and checks for messages even though there isn’t any need - this is expected, but will be optimized to not do so soon.
- The bridge application opens slowly: this is due to connecting at startup, this will be fixed soon. My web server isn’t exactly speedy, and sometimes connect times are relatively high.
- There isn’t any way to see more than 20 (or so) lines on the remote client: This is expected, however I think I have found a solution which will allow the user to toggle between “functional” and “history” modes, viewing past lines.
- Emoticons are not supported: This will be coming soon, however I am not sure whether it would be best to convert to text, or convert to images, perhaps a setting.
- Login and registration pages don’t look good: They are temporary, I will replace them with iPhone/browser specific ones when I can.
- UAC does not prompt for elevation for the Skin Installer under Windows Vista: A fix is in the works for this.
- Requests often get queued up on top of each other, and messages are added to the same window twice: I need to figure out how that is possible before I fix it.
- Status messages and “day change” time stamps are displayed strangely - I’ll have a fix for this soon.
With all these changes, I will soon be implementing a version check–you will need to be using the latest build every time you restart the bridge.
If you find any other bugs, please email or IM them to me so I can be aware–and fix them, as fast as possible!
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