If the contact list is on the other side of the screen from the message window, or not open at all, how would the collapsed view work George?
Chris On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:57 PM, BJ Homer wrote: > 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 >>> >> >> > >
