VV GUI

[Casey Ho]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Sebastian Krause
<sebastian at realpath.org> wrote:
> "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In a video call the IM looses importance, so the biggest element in
>> the screen should be the other's side video. The video on your side
>> should be smaller, and optional. The IM boxes should be smaller and
>> optional too.
>
> Keep in mind that "webcam chats" are also quite popular among people
> (especially MSN users), i.e. audio is not used, only the camera. The
> IM part is still the main focus of these conversations, so it
> shouldn't be put too much into the background. For this use case
> Maiku's suggestion isn't that bad.

So looking at the survey results so far, approximately 85-90% of
people who say "video chat is important enough to switch to another
client" use MSN.

I say for the purposes of a first release, just push out something
that resembles MSN's UI.  It's more or less there already.  Yeah it
won't match Google Talk and some other clients, but that's something
that can be handled at a later date- non-MSN users are in the minority
on this one.

-Casey