Le lundi 25 avril 2005 � 17:09 +0200, Bruno Hertz a �crit : > OK, I've been reading through our threads and looking over the screen > shots again - especially the 'accounts' dialog was a missing piece in > the puzzle - and actually the design as planned looks pretty great. >
Thanks for the effort! > A few additional comments though, some more feature than GUI wise: > > (1) Call display area > > The area where you display caller id and codec for active > (resp. incoming calls when multiple lines are available) could as well > contain the stuff now shown in the status bar, especially call > duration. > > That way all call specific data is centrally displayed and logically > organized for the benefit of the user. No space is lost, since you > then might actually remove the otherwise idle status bar area. > > XLite example of centralized call display: > http://leafsite.org/pics/softphones/xlite-main-1.jpg > > I'm reluctant on this one, I don't know what others thing about it. I'm of the advice that this kind of thing must be displayed in a statusbar. X-Lite doesn't have one, right, but that doesn't mean that it is a better choice. The statusbar is also present for other things (display menu tooltips, flash events to inform the user), so why not using it... > (2) Current Server > > Among the servers registered on, the 'current' one is the server where > calls go if not given a complete URL. I.e. dialing a simple number > would dial it on that server. > > Now, most softphones require you to go to options and specify a > 'default' server or account. This of course is bad. > > Iaxcomm is the only exception, as it offers a dropdown selection list > of registered accounts in the main window, and the currently selected > account is the current server ('schioetz' in this case) : > http://leafsite.org/pics/softphones/iaxcomm.jpg > > This of course is not bad but rather cool. > I had seen that one. It is not well-suited for H.323, but I think the idea is cool. > > (3) Multiple lines > > A feature I understand only planned for the future, but why not dwell > on it right now. Since I already included screen caps of other phones, > a look at them might give some good ideas. > > In the above XLite cap you see three buttons below the call > display. Those are the three lines XLite offers, no more no less. New > calls will arrive on a different line than the one you're currently in > and the button 'LED' will blink. Of course you click to accept/switch. > > Iaxcomm has that scrollable list below the volume controls. All active > resp. held calls are shown there. A click on a specific line puts > other calls on hold and makes the clicked call active. Clicking on the > empty line enables you to place a new call, while all others are held. > > Obviously, that approach is nice. There is no visual limitation of > lines, switching is very easy, and all that is integrated with a > (terse) call display area which is just one line. > > Another imaginable approach could be a dropdown list box which lists: > > * all calls currently active or held with caller id > * a 'New' item to place a new call (while putting the currently active > on hold, of course). > I think I'll go for the X-Lite approach, I have tried it, and it seems the most intuitive for most users, and it is also very similar to real phones. > > Finally, a maybe offtopic remark: if you show the dial input box at > the top all the time (i.e. with all the tabs), it could make sense to > to that with > > * current account/server selection > * multiple line chooser > * and maybe even the call display area > ok for this, but there is not so much room. > as well. E.g. you already show the display area on all tabs. Why not > move it to the top (although it doesn't necessarily need to be > dockable). Also, the current server is linked to the history of the > dial input box. That history contains numbers likely dialed on > different servers, so it'd make sense to group them logically > together. I don't understand this... Can you explain further? > > All the latter, as said, only as starting points for further thoughts. > > That's all which comes to my mind right now. > > Thanks, Bruno. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM 2005 : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ H.323 phone : callto:ils.seconix.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
