That conversation can be read in the archives at http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-August/008666.html.
Matthew On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Oskar Krawczyk <oskar.krawc...@gmail.com>wrote: > No. I just joined the ML yesterday with a very specific idea for the UI in > mind. > > Best, > Oskar > > On May 3, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Christopher Forsythe <ch...@growl.info> wrote: > > There was a large conversation about a whole redesign that was started by > George Lambrou. Have you looked at that at all? > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Daniel Alexander Guzman <ani...@uga.edu>wrote: > >> Overall, I like the direction you've taken with the UI. I'm not a *huge* fan >> of Messages, which it seems you've gone to a certain extent emulating, but >> the simplicity definitely does appeal to me. I especially like the removal >> of a lot of the icon clutter, one of my few annoyances with Adium. However, >> the menubar contacts are a bit iffy for me; I very, very rarely use the >> menubar for anything more than display. The only app I use regularly >> resident in it, Mint Quickview, is hardly a favorite of mine for that exact >> reason. Perhaps as an option, for those who choose to use it, but I >> definitely prefer a regular, dedicated window. >> >> Moreover, the sidebar with current conversations is nice, but I think >> it could be curious to go the route of Google Talk: >> >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5w4yczdz9h21v0/2013-05-03-04.30.48.png >> >> Rather than a separate list of conversations, it could integrate the >> buddy list and conversations, by moving up and differentiating contacts who >> are currently engaged in conversations with you. This works well and saves >> space. >> >> The active input is especially curious, and I wonder how useful it'll >> be. I often use a lot of keyboard-driven interfaces (I use Spotlight to >> launch just about everything), but I've never really thought about it for >> my instant messenger. I figure if it's done well, though, I'd use the hell >> out of it. >> >> Overall, I really do like the more simple and clean direction you took. >> The entire chat 'bubble' style isn't exactly my favorite, so I figure it'd >> be nice (and likely not incredibly hard) to retain the traditional >> configurability of the chat view. Currently, I've got it with something >> clean and simple like so: >> >> http://cl.ly/image/1o1u3q2l0c41 >> >> Nothing incredibly fancy, but just a preference. I've never been a fan >> of bubbles. >> >> Overall, though, I love the direction. If this ever does come together >> into something, I'd love to give it a shot. >> >> On May 2, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Oskar Krawczyk <oskar.krawc...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Just a quick introduction, my name's Oskar, I'm a UI/UX >> designer/developer. >> >> Some of you might already know me by the quick... "chat" I had with >> Colin over twitter, yesterday :-) >> >> You're all probably busy people so I'll get the the point. >> >> In February, I tweeted about how the messenger market for mac is >> lacking, mentioning Adium in the process. Robert Vehse replied saying that >> if I have a suggestion I should create something, so I teamed up with a >> great UI designer and friend of mine (Dawid), and started working on a >> completely rethought frontend for Adium. >> >> There were a few private mails between Robert and me just in order to >> have a more presentable version of our proposal, but the word got out (on >> Hacker News), so we need to present what we've came up with now. >> >> The initial blog post about the Adium Case Study >> http://nouincolor.com/blog/adium-reborn/ (click on the screen for a full >> presentation - click to change the slide). >> >> Most of the screens from the presentation are self-explanatory. One >> thing that might need some introduction is the Active Input, this is >> basically something like Fantastical has – an intelligent input that >> figures out the stuff you’re trying to do, like: >> >> - *chat* Robert >> - *chat* Robert *and* Luke >> - *message* Robert >> - *yesterdays* *chat* with Robert >> - Robert *history* from *yesterday* >> - *status* away >> - *add* oskar.krawc...@gmail.com *to* Friends >> - … >> >> As I've mentioned before, this UI is not as polished as I'd like it to >> be. Plus, if you guys would be interested in this proposal, Dawid and >> myself, we'd spend more time in refining and getting all of the screens >> ready. >> >> I've been using Adium for years (remember >> this<http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=3655> >> or this <http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=6218>), as >> much as I like it, I'd love if this project could take a bolder move, and >> adopt a minimalistic UI as we've created - this could potentially open the >> doors to a completely new user-base. >> >> If you folks are not planning on taking Adium in a slightly different >> direction, no hard feelings, we've tried, and we're happy :-) >> >> Best Regards, >> Oskar >> >> >> > > > -- > Chris Forsythe > @The_Tick <http://twitter.com/The_Tick> > > > -- Matthew
