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David,
It looks great. But I have a couple questions/concerns.
First, this should definitely be a preference that you can turn off. I
think the icon just looks too cluttered. When I log in, I know what
services I've logged in to, and I don't know that I'd need to be constantly
glancing down at the dock to see which services are connected. It would
help show when one service unexpectedly drops offline, but then I'd have to
stop and think which dots were lit up before, and which one isn't now...
What about a "You have been disconnected from X" notification window (the
racing stripe kind)?
Second, I'm already working on reflecting the current status (Away, Idle,
Busy, etc.) in the dock icon. This probably won't conflict, since the badge
can just be placed on top of whatever the icon is.
Third, and perhaps my strongest concern, is that this will reinforce the
one-login-per-service limitation that Fire currently has. I'm not trying to
imply that this is going to change any time soon, but I don't want to
introduce a spiffy new feature that's going to break when/if Fire does get
the ability to support multiple logins per service. Perhaps an online
services dot?
Colter
On 1/19/02 12:51, "Ernest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Pleasepleaseplease include this! This is HEAVENLY!
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>> Hi!
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>> I downloaded the new release of Fire yesterday, and was amazed to see how
>> incredibly it has evolved since the Public Beta days when I last checked it
>> out seriously. ICQ support is now terrific, and the GUI is superior to any
>> of the other clones!
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>> So, when I saw how cool it had become, I instantly felt an urge to help make
>> it even better. So, I checked out the source over anonymous CVS and browsed
>> the source for a while. Then I made a modification that you may want to
>> include in an upcoming version.
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>> Take a look at these pictures:
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>> http://www.ittpoi.com/allservices.jpg
>> http://www.ittpoi.com/onlyactive.jpg
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>> As you can see, what I did was to add a visual indication of what services
>> are online to the icon, to complement the online user display. This is about
>> 30 minutes worth of work, so it isn't exactly refined, and even though I
>> coded in defaults for it, I haven't made a suitable GUI for it, mainly
>> because I wanted to hear if the moderators would like it to become a feature
>> in a future version. If you do, I would gladly make the additional
>> adjustments to facilitate the feature.
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>> Maybe the non-active services should also be drawn in their circles, but at
>> .4 opacity or in black and white or something like that...
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>> I hade to change the structure a little bit in the dock icon updating, in
>> order to allow for this feature. I added a method and moved a few things
>> around in the user number drawing. It shouldn't be difficult at all to
>> integrate, though.
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>> So, Eric, would you like something like this, or should I scrap the idea and
>> find something else to do? :)
>>
>> / Sincerely, David Remahl
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