The current user gets excluded from all non-empty
searches, even ones that match the user, since
it can look funny when the user's at the top of a
search, and you'd never need to search for yourself
(again, since the current user is at the top of
the buddy list).
For many years we have been excluding the current user
from the buddy list, since their presence is kind
of implicit, and it saves a line of real estate.
This commit removes various user-is-me checks
and puts the user back for the following reasons:
* explicit is better
* newbies will be less confused when they
can see they're actually online
* even long-time users like myself will
feel more comfortable if it's just there
* having yourself in the buddy list facilitates
things like checking your presence or sending
yourself a message
* showing "me" reinforces the meaning of the
green circle (if my circle is green and I'm
active, then others with green circles must
be active too)
* If you're literally the first user in the
realm, you can now see what the buddy list
looks like and try out the chevron menu.
The biggest tradeoff here is the opportunity cost.
For an org with more people than fit on the screen,
we put the Nth person below the fold to show "me".
I think that's fine--users can still scroll or
search.
This commit doesn't do anything special with the
current user in terms of sorting them higher in the
list or giving specific styling.
Fixes#10476
This run_test helper sets up a convention that allows
us to give really short tracebacks for errors, and
eventually we can have more control over running
individual tests. (The latter goal has some
complications, since we often intentionally leak
setup in tests.)
A recent change filtered out offline users from the buddy list
whenever the list size would otherwise exceed 600.
This commit reverts half that change--we can now show 600+ users
again, but only when searching.
If we would have more than 600 people in a buddy list, it's kind of
cumbersome to scroll through it, and it's also expensive to render
it (short of doing progressive rendering, which adds a lot of
complexity).
So, as a short term measure, we filter out offline users whenever the
list would exceed 600 users. Note that if you are doing a search that
narrows to fewer 600 users, the offline users will appear again.
Steve Howell
Tim Abbott
Joshua Pan