I concur. This design looks lovely and visually appealing but misses the reality of how many users interact with IM, which is that it's so often a side-activity which is meant to take up a minimum of screen real estate and exist on the side of what they're really doing.
Luke On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:46 PM, David Smith wrote: > 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 >
