If there are no chats open in a window, the sidebar (in both standard and collapsed modes) displays contacts, with no option to hide them until chats are opened.
If the user has chats open, the sidebar can show either only the open chats, or open chats with contacts as well; the user can choose to hide contacts at any time by clicking the button at the bottom of the chat tabs division. If the user has hidden their contacts in a window, and then closes all of their chats in that window, one of three things can happen: if another window that can display contacts (either a dedicated contact list, or another main window that can display contacts) is open, the window will close with the final chat tab; if, however, that window is the only Adium window open, the window remains open after the tabs are closed, and the user's contacts are shown. George On Aug 25, 11, at 6.01 pm, Chris Forsythe wrote: > 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
