Does the collapsed mode address this need, though? -BJ
On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Luke the Hiesterman wrote: > 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 >> > >
