VV GUI

[Felipe Contreras]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Casey Ho <pidgin at caseyho.com> wrote:
> 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.

AFAIK there are many voice/video chat modes in MSN.

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Felipe Contreras