On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:18:29AM +0100, square87 wrote: > Hi all > Hi Triangle87!
> I am writing a new topcw. > You can see the screeshot here http://www.pensierialquadrato.net/bg1.png > What are the differences between the old system and the new one? > > Now we can show smilyes in the tab, and if you are using colorednicks also > nick styles. cool, that's a good feature! > Then the topcw it's wlm-like but better, much modern and configurable. > What do you mean WLM-like? I don't think WLM even has tabs:p So what exactly did you mean by that ? > I want to know what do you think about it and if you agree i'll put it on > svn (it works... :P ) > Well my opinion is this : 1 - I think that it's a bit of a waste of time... as you probably know, we're already pretty much short staffed, not a lot of developers have time to dedicate to aMSN and development isn't as active as before... I know that colored nicks are your "pet project" so you added support for contact list and for chat window and now topcw, and I can understand that and it's good to have something that motivates you! 2 - We are currently trying to get amsn 0.98 released so the TODO list and bugs should be fixed... that's I think our top priority... It also basically means that we want bugfixes and we don't want to add new features that might add bugs... 3 - if the feature is already done, then great! I don't mind it being added to SVN, considering how development is slow now, I think it will get tested enough before we release, so it's fine for now! 4 - The tabs don't look like buttons, they look like a simple image in there, I'd like to see some relief to the buttons.. (just look at the current tabs and try to replicate the look and feel of it). Keeping the same feature/look but just adding the capability to add smileys/colorednicks is important I think 5 - Don't take everything I said badly, I just feel that we have a list of high priority stuff that are *blockers*.. that we can't make a release without finishing them, and the colored tabs was not one of them.. so if you could spend some free time on aMSN, it would have been helpful to do it on our TODO list rather than on something low priority. However, like I always say, aMSN is composed by a group of open source developers and we have no hierarchy and everyone is free, so you can in theory do whatever you want and whatever motivates you the most. Getting work done that motivates you is better than not doing anything! 6 - Make sure you test the code correctly with the different options that can make the code path change.. so if you have a [::config::getKey whatever] in the code, make sure to test the code with and without the 'whatever' option.. also try to test it with and without the colorednicks plugin.. most of the bugs we find are usually because developers tend to test a feature with their own options (like voip controls that i never tested with the option 'use a single dp frame'...) That's it, keep it up! :) > Thanks > > Square87 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
