Conversation window redesign

Luke Schierer lschiere at pidgin.im
Thu May 24 13:41:57 EDT 2007


On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:39:40AM -0700, Colin Barrett wrote:
> On May 23, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Sean Egan wrote:
> 
> > On 5/23/07, Graham Cole <chckens at sucs.org> wrote:
> >> I'd like to advocate the Adium way of doing this.
> >
> > I thought Adium was supposed to have *good* UI ;)
> 
> Yeah, that specific part of our UI is not something I'm very proud of.  
> Our message window toolbar in general is not really that great.
> 
> If you're going to copy something, look at the "header" option many  
> message styles have -- it displays the person's buddy icon, and some  
> information about them in a header above the conversation. See  
> GoneDark[1] for a particularly colorful example.
> 
> Why don't you guys just use Adium message styles yet? ;)
> 
> -Colin
> 
> [1] http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=2463

While I've seen at least one ehancement ticket for adium message styles,
I would LOVE to be able to disable them on Adium.

luke




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