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>So, here's a left-field question (with apolgies to our non-US friends that >don't get the baseball analogy): > >How do you manage your desktop with a Jabber client? I mean you're >cruising along, editing files, checking email, surfing sites - and then >you start to engage in a half-dozen Jabber conversations. The problem is >you've got two classes of activities going on at the same time. The >first class is primarily pro-active. You make the decision what to edit, >what to read, what to surf when. The whole tiled windows desktop >environment works pretty well here. I now have my editor on top. Soon, >I'll put my email on top to send this. Everything is well and good. I am >at peace. >The second class of activities is re-active. I am in the middle of >editing something hoping that Diz will get back to me soon so i can finish >my conversation with him. In this context, I can't be pro-active with >this activity. I'm waiting on an event - an IM from diz. I could set the >Jabber client to come to the top when message received - but that pretty >rapidly drives me insane. I don't want this to happen when I get a >message from just any old person, like Jer. :) And there's no way I'm >going to dynamically specify when I want to be so interrupted from a >particular person (I may not want to talk to diz immediately all the >time). So, I've taken to just carving out a few lines on the top quarter >of my screen with my Jabber client (Jarl on Linux). This way I can glance >up expectantly waiting for a conversation to go "red" indicating that I >have a message from anyone). I lose some of real estate this way but it's >mostly OK - except I have to resize the window to chat and size it back. >I'm interested in how others do this. Of course, it's going to be client >dependent. I'd love to know how others have envisioned solutions to this >problem too. Transparent pop-up windows would be pretty sweet. Iconified >individual conversations maybe too. Just curious. One feature I really miss in all other messengers is the ICQ style "floats", you drag a contact from your contactlist onto the desktop and it's released into it's own little "box" (and it's always on top). It behaves like a normal contact in your ICQ contact list would do. Overal ICQ still has the best interface IMHO for selecting how and about what you want to be notified. _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
