Ahhhh, The UI Master is back! :)
Hello, I don't have much to comment, apart from the fact that I missed all
those UI related emails of yours! I bow before the UI Master :)
Have a nice day :)
KaKaRoTo
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:56:19AM +0100, Karel Demeyer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this message is firstly for Square87; I just found your SearchContact
> plugin on the fora... and I'm glad I found it as otherwise I would have
> started making it. I wanted this feature for so long already. Great work.
> I have some interface-related thoughts though; Tell me what you think of
> it:
>
> The icon on the left is nice as it shows what the input-field is for but
> that's all it does .. I think it could have a function too, namely setting
> the filter. In fact I don't like the choice of a combobox on the right
> either. It also has several functions in 1 'menu' that do way different
> stuff;
>
> My proposition is al follows:
>
> Have a search-icon on the left that acts like a button to open a menu. This
> menu is like this:
> ('v' are tickboxes, o are radiobuttons)
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> v Filter blocked contacts
> v Filter contacts who removed me
> ----------------------------------------------
> o Search all data
> o Search nicknames
> o Search e-mail adresses
> o Search group-names
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> For the "clear" function, I think it would be nice to have a small "clear"
> button appearing on the right of the input-field once there's input.
>
> Q [ ] -> look of the widget without input
> Q [ amsn ] x -> look of the widget with input
>
> This is how some apps I use do search (Banshee, Deskbar) and you can see
> this also on mac software (iTunes' search bar or spotlight is an example).
> The only thing these apps do different is that both the search-icon and the
> clear icon are incapsulated IN the input widget (check screenshots if you
> don't know what I mean). To do this we would be best of to create such a
> search widget ourselves.
>
> Another usability thing is keyboard use. Our CL-widget now ha no keyboard
> bindings to scroll through contacts, which is a bad thing ... so this
> search-plugin can't use this either .. but it would be a nice step in the
> right direction if pressing "Enter" when only one contact is left on the
> filtered list would open a chat with that contact. What do you think ?
>
> Now, in general ... shouldn't this plugin be shipped by default on by aMSN
> for the next release ? it's really awesome :)
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