> De: Benson Tsai <bt...@vrwarp.com> > To be honest, the screen shot looks like a way big step backwards. > Plus it totally looks.. inspired by the current version msn:
> http://tinyurl.com/msncontactlist . If you're looking in that direction > for UI inspirations, then if you look at live messenger wave > http://tinyurl.com/msnwave4), you will notice that they have done > away with that vertical bar. The vertical bar not only looks ugly but > for your use, wastes a lot of space in general. Well msn is not multiprotocol, and those tabs are links to M$ services. If you look at the new MSN UI that tab went to the bottom, wasting vertical space which is far more important. 99% of the people don't use the contact list of IM full screen so width is always available. >The idea of filtering by account > is nice but I think it might make more sense just to look into the idea of > having multiple views for the contact list. Views being anything from simply > a filtered view to something more fancy like a list of contacts that you talk > to more often. What is cool is that since the contact list already uses > amodel-view design, each view can probably be implemented as a > fancy proxy between the model and view. In fact that the way I would implement that is really just a proxy that can setAccountFilter(...). which is usually dam simple. > By "remove" menu, I hope you > mean hide it by default. I think there might be some issue with kopete not > remembering to keep the menu hidden across sessions but that shouldn't be > hard to fix if it were the case. By remove I mean move and remove, remove from the title bar, save only the useful items and put it into a push button with a menu that have things like quit/configure/help. > All in all, I feel like how my contact list is currently set up a far > cleaner and space efficient than what you're proposing. Here is a screenshot: >http://tinyurl.com/mykopete My contact list looks just like yours and it's not eye candy nor easy to use. _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list kopete-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
