Hello snade,
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:28:43 -0300 snade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2005 16:48, wwp wrote: > > > From where I stand, the patch applies w/o problem, and I could not > > reproduce the h-clipped text (yet). > > Actually.. i have corrected just the default style. Lets see if somebody > complains about. > > > > > I noticed that the "Typing label colour" doesn't apply to the background > of > > the status widget in the chat dialog (but it applies fine to the tab > > label). > > I have initially set the color of the status info equals to the the tab > label. > But i really dont know if it is good to set them to the same color. The tab > font color will contrast with the widget background and the status color > will > contrast with the font color (usually black). So, if i use a dark "Typing > label colour", the tab font will seems well, but the status will be terrible > > (black font over a dark background). So, i keep yellow. Eheh colors are subjective.. Depends on one's tastes and the skin colors. To me, that plain yellow is simply ugly, and I cannot change it, that's the only thing I'm complaining about :-). And for the problem of black font over a dark background.. you pointed out a possible problem: how to set the font color in that widget? Does coloring that widget *really* useful (don't think so - color and/or underlining the contact name in tab handle seems enough to me)? > I thought about extending the color configurations for everything possible. > But.. I dont think this is good. The user will become lost with so many > options, dont you think so? Yes you're right. I think that the number of colors-you-can-set *now* is fair, one or two less or more would still be OK. I have also being experiencing difficulty > creating the labels, because i dont know what is a good name. For example: > "Typing label colour", what is that? I know.. but i dont think it is > intuitive. I see no real problem for now, to me it's quite good, except the tab name "chat panel" maybe, which ddoesn't indicate properly what's the tab for - it's only color-intented, so why is there no "color" in the tab name? A good start is also to introduce the feature and wait to see if people complain or propose better ideas. > Many details i dont know how to handle. Good idea to discuss all this here! > What do you all thinks about all of this: which font colors/backgrounds > would be nice to be configurable? And about the styles, the ones i put is > just an example, get rid of the table and history ones. I've already told my opinion about the 1st question above, and for the styles, it will be quit subjective too.. To me, I would rename the "small" as "compact". > dont think common users will like (plugable styles would be nice... maybe). > Which one we could provide? What more would be nice to be in that option > tab? > > I'm little lost.. sorry... cause I dont have sufficient experience with > useability yet. Don't feel that lost, you did a good start IMO, this doesn't look that bad or confusing at all! After that, developers and other users may think differently.. :-) My 2 cts. Regards, -- wwp ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Licq-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/licq-devel
