On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Peter Hosey <bore...@adium.im> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 14:23:59, George Lambrou wrote:
>> Anyways, without further ado, I would like to present to you the sum of four
>> months of work, and the first step down a new road for Adium: the Main
>> Window of Adium Next.
>>
>> <Adium Next - Message Window.pdf>
>
> Some of you may know that I am generally against sidebars. I think they are
> overdone, and most often a sign of lazy UI design: nobody bothered to try to
> think of anything else. You have an even steeper uphill battle with me when
> proposing to replace an existing working design with a sidebar-based design,
> like Skype did.
>
> I think this one works.
>
It's pretty, certainly, but I still thing single-window mode is a
fundamentally misguided design for Adium's primary UI. It takes up
more space, in exchange for... what exactly?
What I think this proposal DOES make sense for is a Lion full screen
mode for Adium.
David
