I can sketch another mock-up implementing (and tweaking) the aforementioned. :)
-imagine your window is 500px tall and each contact row takes 30px, that means 400px of grayspace. I was thinking that the contact row would be 50px, thus 22px status icons and the "lozenge" would fit nicely, as well any text. :) Sam On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Martin Klapetek <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Sam Hewitt <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'll offer my apologies then, miscommunication has definitely occurred >> which I've been involved in; I just volunteered some assistance and drew a >> quick mock-up of some ideas. > > > Thanks, I'm more than happy to continue working with you. So let's put > this behind and focus on the work at hand. > > >> >> To address your points/questions/concerns: >> >> I (like to think I) understand the POV of developers -I do some >> rudimentary (an overstatement) development- given the code does limit >> design in a way. >> >> The icons right of the entry box are indeed for emoticons and an "attach >> file" icon -which I would agree isn't necessary given not all protocols >> under telepathy support file transfer. >> > > We actually had an emoticon button with a full formatting toolbar, which > was completely killed this week. I was thinking about readding the emoticon > button and I think that putting it next to the text input would be good. > > <snip> > > - search always enabled in the chat part >> >> The search was meant to be a contact list search for the ultra-popular >> users, not a search through the backlog for the chat history. >> > > Here the search would be a bit confusing, because it sits on top of the > chatting area, so it would imply that it will search through the chat > rather than the list. Also keep in mind that the chat have a search of its > own. Maybe if the search was moved down to the chat toolbar (as there's > empty space right below it) for searching the chat and the searching field > for contact list could be moved to the left? > > >> >> > - "if you're in a chat, do you want to see all your contacts"? >> >> - If the only way to start a chat was via the contact list, I'd agree. If >> we were completely standalone I'd agree. >> >> I agree with this, I don't want to see them; I understand the logic of a >> single window mode but I'm not a fan -contrary to the vehement of others. >> >> - I do want to try a vertical list on the text-ui rather than the tabs >> for all your ongoing chats. I think that would be a good >> experiment to do and test on a group of people. >> >> If one were to consider the vertical list in my mock-up to be simply for >> all active chats, and not a complete list of contacts, then it would be >> more cohesive with the ideas in motion. ;) >> > > I'm thinking what if you have only two or three opened chats? Then you > have lots of wasted space on the side of the chat ui; imagine your window > is 500px tall and each contact row takes 30px, that means 400px of > grayspace. > > Also I really like the simplification of the contact list toolbar and I'm > happy to implement it. We most certainly don't need all those buttons to be > there (I think the only buttons having a real value in there is the "show > offline contacts" and "find contact"). > > -- > Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer > > > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > >
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