I am partial to adding a [send on enter] preference in Conpherence to more closely emulate Chat/IRC. I've tried the Cmd-Enter but it's a bit of a hassle. This preference would essentially flip the behavior.
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Let's try just doing send-on-enter always? I hate preferences a whole lot (even more than send-on-enter), and we're pulling the product in a pretty chat-ey direction. If it's terrible we can add a preference.
Specifically:
- Enter with no modifier keys sends messages.
- Enter with any modifier key adds a newline.
- We could remove the "Send" buttons, too, I suppose.
At least on the iPhone, it's actually possible to "shift + return". Not sure if we can pick that up in JS, but might be good enough if we can.
@btrahan do you have any thoughts on preference / no preference. I'm a bad judge since I love send on enter. I would probably still leave a send button though? I can do a rough scan of other chat applications.
I think we should do send on enter; its all the rage in the chat nowadays.
I'm somewhat indifferent on the send button. However, if / when we get into creating things like tasks, wiki docs, etc in the context of a Conpherence, we might want to can the "send" button in favor of some button that invokes a dialogue to do these things.
Twitch has a send button.
Slack (mac app anyway) has a "create other stuff" button, which has "upload file", "create text snippet", and "create post". FWIW these would align with the File app, the Paste app, and the Phame app respectively.
- Column layout now has send-on-enter.
Later/eventually:
- Use the same logic in full layout?
- Remove or change buttons?
- Tweak mobile?
Mostly depends where the product goes and how it feels, I think.
At least so far, this doesn't seem like an acute problem. I'm going to close it until we have specific feedback.