On 12/11/06, Martijn Klingens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 11 December 2006 05:15, Matt Rogers wrote: > > On Saturday 09 December 2006 05:04, Marc Cramdal wrote: > > > I have just fallen on this today : it's an attempt to improve Kopete > > > contact list. It seems interesting: > > > http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=49765 > > Looks gorgeous, but... > > > 1. Do we really want to allow contact list theming? We've discouraged it in > > the past before and I feel it's in our best interests to discourage it now > > I tend to agree. If nothing else, think about keyboard navigation, consistency > with the rest of the desktop (learning curve) and accessibility.
Which is a pity, I was hoping that at one time in the future I would be able to do with Kopete what I did with Miranda before (when I was still using Windows): get rid of EVERY PIECE of interface except the contact list itself. This included all the buttons, the menu and even the title bar and window borders (the latter two are easy of course with X). That in combination with a transparant and auto-growing window to fit exactly the number of online contacts meant the Miranda would take up as little screen space as possible which to me is as it should be. An IM program is something that is open 24/7 on my desktop but is only used actively a fraction of that time. The rest of the time it should attract as little attention as possible. (The tray icon is not enough becuase that way I can't see who is online) Theming would probably allow for all of the above, so I would tend to be in favour of it. Of course I'm no Kopete developer so I know how little my ideas are worth ;-) Cheers, -Tako _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
