Reducing tab size

[Sean Egan]

On 8/7/07, Lukas Barth <tinloaf at goerresonline.de> wrote:
> I think we're talking at crossroads: I'm talking about bringing back the
> status icons in tabs, not coloring buddies' names according to their
> state. Even if some user would have the idea of coloring his or her
> tablist very fancy, the icons would give a good contrast, I think. (I
> even tried it - see the content of
> http://goerresonline.de/~tinloaf/pidgin/ ).

See also: http://pidgin.im/~seanegan/images/theme.jpg

Anyway, I don't think anyone is claiming that text formatting is a
more effective means of conveying status than status icons. Status
icons rock.

What's being argued is that, in this particular context, text
formatting may be more appropriate.

-s.