[WIP] Ability to send text messages

[slowscript]

I've added the ability to send and receive text messages. This could be useful for quickly sending URLs and tokens between devices and would fix #105

The messages can be selected and copied (selection, or whole message using the button). Up to 4 lines or first 120 characters are shown, although sometimes 4 lines can be exceeded due to wrapping. Unfortunately I did not figure out how to convince Gtk to properly ellipsize it, suggestions are welcome. Wrapping the text manually by inserting newlines looks the best, but then selecting and copying a part of it also includes the newlines... Another option would be to put the label in a ScrolledWindow, but I don't think that looks good. I think limiting the visible length in some way is needed to avoid having one message take up the whole window.

It also shows a notification:

I will add an identical feature to the Android and Windows versions later.

[M0-find-U]

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[M0-find-U]

I've added the ability to send and receive text messages. This could be useful for quickly sending URLs and tokens between devices and would fix #105

The messages can be selected and copied (selection, or whole message using the button). Up to 4 lines or first 120 characters are shown, although sometimes 4 lines can be exceeded due to wrapping. Unfortunately I did not figure out how to convince Gtk to properly ellipsize it, suggestions are welcome. Wrapping the text manually by inserting newlines looks the best, but then selecting and copying a part of it also includes the newlines... Another option would be to put the label in a ScrolledWindow, but I don't think that looks good. I think limiting the visible length in some way is needed to avoid having one message take up the whole window.

It also shows a notification:

I will add an identical feature to the Android and Windows versions later.

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[M0-find-U]

I've added the ability to send and receive text messages. This could be useful for quickly sending URLs and tokens between devices and would fix #105

The messages can be selected and copied (selection, or whole message using the button). Up to 4 lines or first 120 characters are shown, although sometimes 4 lines can be exceeded due to wrapping. Unfortunately I did not figure out how to convince Gtk to properly ellipsize it, suggestions are welcome. Wrapping the text manually by inserting newlines looks the best, but then selecting and copying a part of it also includes the newlines... Another option would be to put the label in a ScrolledWindow, but I don't think that looks good. I think limiting the visible length in some way is needed to avoid having one message take up the whole window.

It also shows a notification:

I will add an identical feature to the Android and Windows versions later.

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[mtwebster]

Hi, I tested this out, some feedback:

• We need to be able to detect that a remote has messaging capability (maybe our ServiceInfo needs to have an extra field to declare this?), and hide/disable messaging features if appropriate.
  

• New messages trigger a notification, but not a highlighting of the remote from the main view.
  

• I'm not a fan of having a popup to send a message - it's too many steps I think. What about having an entry at the bottom of the remote's page?
  (quick glade mock-up)
  

• Maybe we can improve the display of the received message to allow it to be wider:
  
  You could hide the transfer_size_label for messages and add a new op_status_stack page with another, wider label (the one you're using now is 30px wide fixed).

I'd like to wait for @clefebvre's opinion on all of this stuff though - opinions tend to vary :)

Thanks!

[clefebvre]

Same as @mtwebster, I think it's better to have an entry at the bottom.

To show the message in the window, you can hide more columns. You don't need to mention "Text message", a chat bubble icon would be explicit enough imo.