Feature Request: Dock QuickBrowse
Subtitle: Fight window proliferation!
If you work in a large enterprise, your chat/EIM client may look a lot like mine – dozens upon dozens of chat windows, each with someone in your team, your internal customers, the support group, and all sorts of other people across your organization. My chat dock currently has 198 windows for 1:1 (private) conversations, and 21 for group chat channels. Do I talk (chat) with each of those people, or on each of those channels, everyday? No, of course not. But these are the people with whom I have to collaborate over the course of work. Project team members, functional managers, finance people, procurement, engineers, so on and so forth.
Unless you assiduously close and clean out your chat client throughout the day, these windows accumulate. If you do close out the windows, you will probably lose the conversation history with them – especially if it’s a 1:1 conversation (and that’s where most of the window proliferation happens).
What could the software developer do about this cunundrum? Add a button to the chat client that allows the user to quickly scroll through and enter only the channels/windows with unread traffic. For example, of the above 219 total channels, at any moment in time, there may be 11 or 12 that have unread traffic. This proposed feature would allow the user to just flip amongst those 11 or 12 channels.
Cheers,
Eric
Update: I’ve recently be reminded of two things:
As per Eric Sinclair , in MindAlign, at least, this is easily achieved with CTRL-N. Shame, shame on me.
I should have known that. I really, -really- should have known/remembered that. I leave this now-irrelevant post up here as a cautionary tale to myself ….
