Codeux/Textual — Issue #154: Queries to services should open a new tab
Author: benanderman
Created: 2012-02-29 18:47:21+00:00
State: open

I think that the policy of not opening a query tab when you /msg NickServ/ChanServ is bad. It's bad because it's inconsistent, inconvenient, and unintuitive. I have used IRC for many years, and in every other client I've used, a new tab would be opened. It's inconsistent because new tab is opened in every other case. A new tab would generally be a more convenient place to see the response, and also without one you never see your message in any log. And it's unintuitive because... as a user, when I type /msg NickServ help, and nothing at all appears to happen, I think "What the hell? This is broken!". And I'm pretty sure that response is not unreasonable.

And of course, to an inexperienced user it would be even worse. I tell someone "so just type /msg nickserv help to find out how to register your nick", and they reply "...nothing happened".