On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:25:38 +0300, Anders Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would like to do some changes to the chat dialog as a feel that the
current dialog wastes space with all the extra buttons and controls
everywhere.
Well, given the fact that qt4 widgets seem to take more space by
themselves,
yes, I think it's worth to do so.
Currently I have only tried to move things around a bit to make it more
space efficient. In the future I'm thinking of making it possible for
the user to easily hide/show parts of the dialog (s)he is not using at
the moment.
Why do we have over-complicate this? Why not making just one toggler
(be it a button or something else -- doesn't matter) which just shows/hides
the "toolbar"?
1) Removed the status indicator. The information is already available in
the icon on the tab or window so no need to display it in text as well.
Hmm, that's interesting, do we have any colorsight-impaired users out
there?
If the answer is yes, then it's a degradation for them.
On the other hand, in current window layout this field is the most
noticeable
typing notification.
2) Typing notification is displayed by changing the tab text color but
for those of us that doesn't use tabs it is also indicated by changing
icon on the tab/window to the typing icon from the extended icon set.
I think this way of notification is not quite enough.
In case of using tabs, I'd like alias to be underlined also.
Otherwise, it would be good to change the window title.
E.g., with an asterisk after the nickname.
3) All tool buttons are changed to QToolButton which are smaller. It
would also be possible to use a QToolBar which would give them a toolbar
look and also remove the spacing between them.
Mmm.. How about simulating Opera's toolbars?
4) Menu button has been moved next to history and info buttons as I
think they belong together. The button is marked "Me" as I have no icon
yet to display on it.
To my opinion, no icon is even needed. Just a translatable "Menu" is quite
enough. And it's OK that it makes the button wider, it should be wider
after all, since it's the main basic button. The other thing here is that
there is no reason for this button to be in the toolbar, it must stay where
it is in the current layout. Right before the event type combobox.
6) Checkboxes and toolbuttons in the groupbox have been moved and
grouped on the "toolbar".
Well, I miss separators here, but that will require QToolBar widget,
I guess.
Outstanding issues:
1) I would like to move the combobox as well but that would presently
make the window to wide. Maybe it could be made into a toolbutton with a
popup menu just like the encoding button.
No, it is good how it looks in the sample.
3) I have currently hidden the info field showing the contact's local
time as cannot find a good place for it. Maybe to the far right end of
the "toolbar".
He-he. I won't miss it.
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