Weekly report: June 15th 2013

It appears I can't remember to post daily logs. Instead, I've decided to post whenever something stumps me, or I discover something interesting, or in general when I want to log something I run into.
Now that that's out of the way, here's what I've done this week:

• The tabbrowser changes are now pretty much complete and are awaiting review! There are still some nits and other things I need to address, but it should be pretty minor stuff.
• Tabbrowser being tamed, I set out to start work on Awesometab. The goal is to have a buddy-list type UI as an initial milestone. So far, here's what I've managed:
• Awesometab can be launched via keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+t), context menu, and the new tab "+" button.
• It displays a list of buddies - nothing fancy, just a list of names - and a search bar.
• On typing into the search bar, buddies are filtered based on whether their display name starts with what has been typed (not case sensitive).
• When the "Enter" key is pressed, conversations are started with all the buddies selected in the list, and if no buddy is selected, the first one in the list.
• I'm pretty happy with my progress so far, but a lot remains to be done! Here's a to-do of what I want to finish in the coming days:
• Opening an Awesometab in a new window needs to maintain the current value in the search box and currently visible buddies.
• Adding buddies to the list should be async.
• Show conversations on hold in the list.
• Make things pretty. The buddies should be displayed with their profile pictures, status messages, availability, etc.
• Sorting - based first on availability, then alphabetically. Protocol must also be taken into account. Right now the list is completely unsorted.
• A bit of polish - double clicking a buddy in the list should open a conversation, a context menu, etc. - basically adding in more buddy list functions.

With that I sign off! Have a great weekend!