Some feedback: - I think the new message bar is too heavy. What we have now is so lightweight, it would be a shame to lose that. It also looks weird that it's so different from the bar immediately to the left. - Not a fan of the purple in the popovers. Something more blue and/or neutral would work better, perhaps. - To get to "scripts" you have to click an emoticon icon is definitely suboptimal, as you say. Maybe scripts could work as a floating palette you could turn on & off (or get its own button). - Why have custom emoticon creation inline? Seems like it's better suited for prefs -- most of the time I would imagine it's something you want to use over and over? I don't actually know though. Just seems to me that something getting placement in the message window should be as lightweight as possible and contain only the most frequently accessed controls. - What protocols actually support sending and switching emoticon sets? Just MSN? I agree it'd be cool to do that inline, but what about a protocol that didn't do that? What would that look like? - I would love to see these with some of our default themes put in for the Message View. Could be nice to see how they stack up. - Having the unread icons and the status icons not being vert aligned makes the list of contacts feel busier than it actually is. - What does the icon next to Valerie's name mean? - What's the icon between "+" and "4 chats" mean? - Why have a count of the number of chats?
These are starting to look pretty slick George. Keep up the good work! :D -Colin On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:39 PM, George Lambrou wrote: > I've finished some new mockups, finally. These ones focus on a proposed > relocation of emoticon and script insertion, but I've made some minor > aesthetic changes as well (gloss I think, badges, and the message bar). > Anyways, without further ado, the mockups: > > <Adium NUI Mockup.png> > <Empty Custom Emoticon View and Popover Tab Overflow.png> <Adding > a Custom Emoticon.png> <Scripts Popover.png> > > The big addition here is the Emoticons & Scripts popover, which is activated > by a new button in the message bar. It makes emoticon management and scripts > funcionality more prominent, and allows for the removal of their toolbar > icons*; I was thinking we could possibly even expand this concept to the > insertion of links, placing all message insertion tools in the message bar > while slimming the look of Adium by allowing the removal of five toolbar > icons (Emoticons, Scripts, iTunes, Insert Link, and Insert Link from > Browser). That said, placing so much functionality into one button might not > be a good thing. A smiley face definitely isn't going to cut it for four > different purposes, and I'm not sure if it's the best thing to use for the > scripts inclusion either; I only used here it because it made its most used > functionality more obvious. > *Colin and I were discussing possibly relocating/-organizing of some of > Adium's toolbar functionality the other day. > > The emoticons side of the popover also provides solutions for tickets #484 > and #506. > • #484 Emoticons are now arranged in a grid fashion, with a tooltip > showing the shortcut for and name of the icon on hover; separate packs are > denoted by tabs in a toolbar near the top of the popover. > • #506 The pencil glyph* in the tab bar represents a user-generated > collection of custom emoticons to be sent over networks that support them > such as MSN; the creation of each emoticon is facilitated entirely within the > popover. Note that this functionality is not intended for the creation of > AdiumEmoticonSet bundles; emoticons created here would generally be used by > users to supplement the standard emoticons ( :D :S and the like) of > downloadable packs with their own. > • *I wasn't too sure about the pencil; I was debating between > an OS X user man (for "personal collection"), an iOS-style "compose" glyph, > and the pencil; I think it fits reasonably well, but if anyone has any better > metaphors, please don't hesitate to throw them out here… > > I've designed the scripts side of the popover to help users better discover > and manage message and iTunes scripts. Scripts are categorized in an > iOS-style list, sorted depending on the packs that they came from; if there > is only one script in a pack, it is grouped in the Other Scripts category, > which always appears at the bottom of the list. We could also add a link to > get more scripts at the Adium Xtras site to the very bottom of the list. > > One thing about the popovers; I didn't know what Lion's looked like when I > designed them, and as such I based their look off of those of the iPad's. If > you guys think they need changing, I'll redo them. That said, I quite like > the way these turned out, if I may say so myself. ;) > > As usual, all feedback is appreciated; I'm now on IRC as GCL721, so you can > get in touch with me in #adium-devl if you want to. > > George Lambrou > > P.S. The lack of a status indicator in Group Chat 1 was intended; it's > depicted as an ad-hoc multichat, where there is no global chat status, just > that of its participants. Infrastructure mode tabs, like on IRC and XMPP, > would have a status icon.
