How about a way of letting users create modules/plugins for drupalchat that are present as tabs on the chatbar next to the Online Users etc.

Drupalchat would require each plugin present in the plugin folder to contain an icon image file, a config file and a theme file.

Then users can add anything they like in the theme file.
For example, I could create a plugin and it's theme contains a

    list of links to common account-related tasks (Edit, View nodes I created, Logout) etc.

    It would allow for some nice user expansions I think!

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fenda commented

AppBar is a new module. Perhaps DrupalChat could support it for the above functionality?
http://drupal.org/project/appbar

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darklrd commented

Marked #865996: Support for appbar? as duplicate of this.

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2ndChanceTech commented

not sure if this is a possible solution, until it gets worked out. But you could put appbar at the top, chatbar at the bottom with just some CSS I believe. May not be the exact solution you're looking for. But it's similar to what facebook does.

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drupalok commented

+1 for this. "just" make drupalchat available as a block so one can add it to the application toolbar

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fenda commented

I'm worried about having DrupalChat depend on Application Toolbar. By the looks of it, there is only 1 maintainer who hasn't touched it in several months.

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drupalok commented

ok. you got a point. but it would be great if drupalchat could additionally provide blocks to be used by application toolbar (or other modules)

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imDhaval commented

love to join

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imDhaval commented
Title: add your own box/tab » Integration with Application Toolbar (Appbar)
Issue tags: +Appbar

in Appbar there is an issue for this also http://drupal.org/node/968080

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icecreamyou commented

@Fenda: I'm active in the issue queues. Major new development on Appbar is postponed until I get an alpha of the 3.x branch of Facebook-style Statuses (FBSS) ready. But I fully intend to keep it active and well-maintained -- and frankly it's pretty stable as-is right now. There are only 4 open bug reports, which is very low considering the user base and how long it's been available, and those bugs are relatively minor.

Regardless, Appbar supports displaying blocks, so if you're not comfortable relying on Appbar, you could just consider making the chat interfaces available in blocks and then administrators could independently use Appbar if they wanted to do so.

Please feel free to let me know if you need any more details or information.

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fenda commented

I should have researched more, my apologies.

Will try to implement block chat interfaces at some point so administrators can implement DrupalChat into Appbar.

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broncomania commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.2

Is their any advance in this point? I can get them work but their is still the issue that you can see the appbar or the drupalchat but not both. Maybe this is just an css issue or is jquery also involved? How can this get fixed.

It's a pitty! Two really cool modules but they didn't play together. Notifications is not nessesary for drupalchat. You get this already by the appbar. I think drupalchat is a real appbar / tray module and it should be seen like this.

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baff commented

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