Conversation window redesign

[Luke Schierer]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Colin Barrett wrote:
> On May 24, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Luke Schierer wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Why, exactly? Couldn't you just use a rather plain one?
> 
> In fact, the layout Adium used to use is (somewhere) on our Xtras  
> site. (Man oh man that was a pain to implement).
> 
> -Colin

Because while it might be childish, I like setting font colors, and
though I can accustom myself to one of yours, I'd rather use & see my
own colors.  I'd also like to see the colors others set.

luke