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Turn off docking in the buddy list preferences, and you'll be able to move
it off-screen just fine. (You'll have to restart Fire, it looks like it
doesn't change on the fly, at least in my build.)
Cheers,
br
> From: Philippe Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:57:36 +0100
> To: Ben Rister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: the proposal (try 3)
>
> At 11:27 -0600 06/02/02, Ben Rister wrote:
>>> So I'd be very happy with a thin bar on the right side of my screen, showing
>>> only the first three or four characters of each buddy name. In addition, I'd
>>> be great if the buddy icons where able to flash or bounce when an IM comes,
>>> and to be dimmed when a buddy is idle or away.
>>
>> Yep, I considered this solution too. But what's really solved here beyond
>> just putting the normal buddy list hanging off the edge of the screen?
>> They're all left-aligned in the current thing, so you just hang it off the
>> right distance, and you get the appropriate fractions of names without the
>> whitespace on the right. You get back a little bit of vertical space from
>> losing extra widgets, but I don't know what more is gained there.
>
> I'm not sure we understand each other, here. Are you saying I could move the
> current buddy list partly offscreen, so It would just show it's left part? I
> would, if that was possible, but it isn't: when I try, the window just goes
> back to the left so its right border sticks to the screen edge. I also tried
> to resize it to be very narrow, but the minimum width is still pretty large.
>
> I was talking about a vertical bar about 20 or 30 pixels wide, sticking at the
> right edge of the screen. Just what would give the bar in your mockup if it
> was vertical.
>
>> It would be easier to have the icons bounce that way, I would think, but I
>> also imagine that they can at least flash in the current scheme, though I
>> haven't looked at that...
>
> Yeah, bouncing, flashing, changing color or shape... you get the idea, I was
> just talking about visual feedback. :-)
>
>>> The main advantage of a right bar (in addition to allow me keeping my dock
>>> at
>>> screen bottom) is that it would almost never get in the way of another
>>> window
>>> or interface item. So if it was possible, that would be my choice.
>>
>> It's just as possible to cover up the resize control if it's floating on the
>> right as on the bottom. If it's on either the top or left, it can cover the
>> close/minimize/zoom controls. There's no way to win so long as you're
>> floating. =)
>
> Right, but I've noticed that the right border of the screen is clear more than
> 90% of the time, OMM.
>
> Philippe
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