I've been trying it, and it's not too bad, but I have a few suggestions: Space the messages out some, they seem sort of cramped.
Scrolling isn't very much fun, it goes really slowly in some situations. As for using it as default, I'm not so sure. But it certainly could be included with the code as a built in style. ~Charles On Saturday 21 April 2007 09:37, Sébastien Laoût wrote: > Hello all, > > First of all, thank you very much for Kopete. > I couldn't think of using another Instant Messenger program anymore. > At least because of your perfect notifications we get on new messages. > Sound, blinking taskbar and the very helpful baloon popup helping not > switching from an important work to a discussion, to discover that it's > only a "lol" message ;-) > > The only thing that kept me for being completly happy with Kopete is a > beautiful, simple and useful discussion theme. > > But thanks to your new HTML+CSS engine, I made one that fulfil all those > criteras: > > Glossyk 4 -- http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=40797 > > It has the following features, all requiered for any theme, IMHO: > - With or without the avatar side-bar > - Full or compact message headings > - Six well-balanced color choices > - Supports non-rectangular avatar icons > - Supports transparent avatar icons > - Copy discussions as text without any glitch > - Time stamp with date in the tooltip > - Supports Right to Left languages > - It is Open Source: it includes SVG image sources, with clean, commented > HTML and CSS for designers to base theire theme on (with a script to > auto-generate all the variant combinations) > > I'd like to propose you to include the theme by default on Kopete. > > - It has a strong and unique identity (not a ripped out theme from eg. > Adium, nor a copy of eg. Live Messenger), very important for Kopete to > stand out as a unique and important Instant Messenger. > - A good usability: time with date in non-obtrusive ways, and more > important, a copy discussions as text without any glitch, a must have. > The avatar-bar is also on the left because if it were on the right, the > scrollbar would not appear connected to the discussion area and would > seem broken. > It also offer all informations people would need, presented in a good > way. - It ships with a good choice of configurations (avatar bar, compact > view) and of colors (all beautiful enough, and varied enough for all > tastes). Those two criteria are important for a default theme, so people do > not need to browse and install new themes). > - It has a good rating and download number on kde-look.org > > What do you think about this? > > PS: I'm not registered on the mailing-list, please CC me while replying. > > Best regards, > Sébastien Laoût. > _______________________________________________ > kopete-devel mailing list > kopete-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
