I think you're wrong about focusing on the video. I often do videochats in an open office landscape, where I cannot use audio. So it's video + text instead of video + audio. And I don't think that kind of usage is too uncommon. This is possible in all IM's I have tried, so I don't think Adium should be the first making this kind of use difficult.
Håvard Pedersen http://fuzzy76.net/ On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 21:03, George Lambrou <georgelambrou...@gmail.com>wrote: > I like Mr. Hosey's idea, but not as the main video view. I could see > it working best as an 'out of tab' view, i.e. video chatting with > person X while in the message tab of person Y. > > The way I see it, if a video chat is started, then the user is going > to want to focus on the video, maybe send one or two short messages > along the lines of "I can't see/hear you", or a link to a webpage. A > video frame in the corner would not be the main focus to me. > > Don't get me wrong, though, this idea sounds perfect for when the user > switches away from the video tab. > > George Lambrou > > On 2011-02-03, at 12:52 AM, Peter Hosey <bore...@adium.im> wrote: > > > So, let's do something like that. Have the video be that corner view, in > either the lower-right or upper-right corner of the message view. If you > expand it, it grows to fill the lower (or upper) ~70% of the message view. > >
