Op donderdag 24 november 2005 19:05, schreef Pieter Barrezeele: > On 23 Nov 2005, at 10:38 PM, Sander Devrieze wrote: > > Op woensdag 23 november 2005 13:37, schreef Pieter Barrezeele: > > <snip> > > > >>> Look at Coccinella cvs ( http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/ ). Yes, > >>> it is only a > >>> matter of time until Coccinella will replace Psi as the default > >>> Jabber > >>> client :-p (I hope ;-) ). > >> > >> Ugh, once more we are confronted with the ugliness of some Linux UI > >> toolkits. > >> Jabber-wise you can dismiss this post as a rant, but with an > >> interface like this, you'll never get to warm up people for this > >> particular software, no matter how many features it has... > > > > Did you actually tried a *recent* version of Coccinella (latest or > > cvs)? Or > > did you just looked at the *outdated* screenshots on the website? > > Is this > > ugly?: http://sander.dontexist.org/coccinella.png > > I admit I kind of trusted the website for having a decent as well as > recent screenshot on as much as it entry pages... > > The screenshot you posted looks a _lot_ better and should I have seen > that instead of the one on the coccinella website, I probably > wouldn't have bothered ranting about it... :-)
Yes, indeed. > But now that we're at it: <snip> > - about coccinella (and more specifically the screenshot you > posted ;)): just noting that I don't get why the font in your > groupchat is at least 2 points smaller than the font in the users > list for that groupchat ? I didn't noticed that. Maybe it is like this to be able to show more lines on one screen while making it not difficult to click on a user in the users list? > - And why do these icons have to be that large ? The icons at the top? > - Also, looking at the left-most edge of the chatroom window... Why > does that has to be in two levels of depth? A lot of current Linux UI > themes suffer a lot of what I would call 'ballast'. In my very humble > opinion, this interferes too much with the user experience... CCed to the developer! :-) > Anyway, I realize this all has little or nothing to do with jabber > development, but sometimes it's hard to draw the lines between client > issues and user interface issues... :) No, this *has* something to do with Jabber development; constructive Jabber client feedback is always welcome! :-) -- Mvg, Sander Devrieze. xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ejabberd, the expandable Jabber daemon. -- http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/
