We had a meeting at FOSDEM re https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103811/ with a guy from open-usability. Notes taken are written below, with additional comments.
People present: - Me - DrDanz - Martin - DrDanz's girlfriend (sorry, my mind has gone blank :-S ) - Some really nice guy from Open Usability (whose name I have no idea how to spell.) Summary of things discussed: - Window icon should not be specific to the current tab. It should show if the window needs attention by the user, after which it should fall back to a standard icon for the text-ui. - The icon should _not_ be the same as the contact list as that would be confusing. - Tab icon should be one of message/typing/presence. (as if they're typing you don't give need to know if they're "busy" as they're clearly at their computer.) - Overlays are too small to be useful - Multi tab chats and single user chats should behave differently. - Window title in a multiple tab chat simply says "2n active chats" - Single window stays the same. - In order to do what was discussed the tab bar would have to stay visible. - One proposed suggestion was to have a new tab button that shows a list of contacts. (I am /massively/ against this, as it goes against the entire modular approach we've been working towards) - Protocol does not need to be displayed in the window title/icon. Maybe in the toolbar. (especially when we have metacontacts, so it can be a dropdown.) One of the things constantly repeated at the conference in the design talk is there is no "right and wrong" design, only constant itteration improving - This has different parts from both the arguments in the original discussion, which shows progress. I'm a teeny bit of a skeptic about all of these, as I never noticed anything "wrong" with what was there before and I use chat a lot every day, however, I'm willing to try the proposed out. We should monitor feedback from actual users (including us) though as that's by far the _most_ important factor in these decisions. Dave _______________________________________________ KDE-Telepathy mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy
