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(jumping out of lurker mode and diving into the middle of the discussion)
I'm not a programmer, but I wanted to throw in my two cents from a user's perspective.
ICQ: I choose when to open message windows and from whom. No distracting flashing chat
windows everywhere and definitely no typing part of a message on someone else's chat
window.
Fire and closing chat windows after replies: when I review the message history, I have
to click a lot to find information sometimes. The reason I like to leave chat windows
open in Fire is then I can see a whole day's conversation as one session. The downside
of this of course is clutter when I'm talking to multiple people...actually, now that
I think about it, I'm wondering (definitely not suggesting) whether or not the Chat
History window might not be a good start as far as designing a
multiple-user-tabbed-etc-type UI.
Windows popping up in front of other windows: I've noticed this behavior in just about
every OS X program including Eudora, AOL, Fire, Explorer. I have a feeling this is an
OS X thing. I personally find it extremely disruptive and annoying as well.
Ed Wu
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>>>On 3/6/02 11:11, "Jonathan Baumgartner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>What would be *really* cool would be a tabbed window interface, like
>>>>Mozilla or Adium. That's probably a significant amount of work,
>>>>though. It would solve this problem, though.
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>>>Why do people think that this is good UI design? It doesn't scale well,
>>>reduces visibility, and makes it more difficult to work with multiple
>>>conversations.
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>>Maybe, instead of a tab window interface, there could be a side drawer with a list
>of open conversations, such that the names can be scrolled through vertically.
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>>I still think all of these ideas are a bad thing�, however. Firstly, because there
>is no correct way to sort IMHO (ie not by last accessed conversation, and definitely
>not in alphabetical order in my case, due to the number of people I talk to).
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>>just my -2 cents,
>>Chris
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>I think that the tabbed interface is optimal for people who have between 2 and say 5
>conversations open at a time. If you've got many more than that the drawer might be
>better, although you are certainly right about there being no one *correct* way to
>sort. There are many *good* ways to sort, however. (i.e. instantiation order,
>pending events order, user defined order, etc.)
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>I would think that if you're talking to so many people that a scrolled list view
>isn't sufficient, that separate windows would bite as well, but I wouldn't know.
>There aren't that many people who want to talk to me :) Or maybe I'm
>misunderstanding you.
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>Brent
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