That is because your concept of identity is wrong. As far as I know,
the identity is suppose to represent exactly what the word means,
which is, "condition or character as to who a person or what
a thing is" (dictionary.com). While you can state that sure, you and
you're friend are diffe
Okay, lets put it this way. You are completely wrong about vertical
space being "more important" than horizontal space. Consider for a
moment the implications of using up the vertical space. It means the
view to your buddy list becomes all the slight smaller. Now the
consequence of that is you see
> Having tabs optionally is probably good. They could be used for
> more than one identity. However, I dislike them. Maybe sometime in the
> future I'll use one "work" identity and one "private" identity that I don't
> want to mix, but for now I prefer the current unified
> window.
That's why
On Thursday 22 July 2010 16:02:08 dantti85-...@yahoo.com.br wrote:
> So the account setup as Markus said is also one of the parts
> where users find it hard to understand, by having tabs
> you can just add a new tab which will become a add new account
> and that's done.
Having tabs optionally is
On Thursday 22 July 2010 15:53:05 dantti85-...@yahoo.com.br wrote:
> I was sure not everyone would like the tabbed contact list.
> I never tried the lancelot component (since I don't like lancelot),
You don't need to use the Lancelot menu. You just need to add the menu and
then drop the contacts
> De: Benson Tsai
> 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://
> De: Volker Härtel
> I also don't like the proposed gui changes.
> - Vertical space is no
> problem for me, and can be saved by hiding the menu (ctrl+M) and making
> contacts use only one row, see my contact-list:
> >http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1390/kopetelist.jpg
> - transparency
> yo
> I like the idea of making the user interface simpler, however I don't think
> this mockup brings Kopete to a more usable state:
> - Identity is a very complex term that most people just don't get in
> combination with the accounts concepts
> - The original Kopete idea was to hide the protocols
> De: Markus Slopianka
> IMO some of your ideas (eg. transparent contact list) are actually not well
> suited for standard Kopete, but instead for a Plasmoid that lives in
> vertical Plasma panel. You can -- kind of -- already get a similar result
> by dropping Lancelot's contacts component int
I also don't like the proposed gui changes.
- Vertical space is no problem for me, and can be saved by hiding the menu
(ctrl+M) and
making contacts use only one row, see my contact-list:
http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1390/kopetelist.jpg
- transparency you can have with desktop effects, or in
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> IMO the worst part of Kopete usability-wise is the way accounts are set up.
> Even I (an avid user) find it confusing. For starters, the WinPopup and
> Testbed protocolls should be completely deleted to reduce clutter.
> I find most of Kop
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
4 (http://tinyurl.com/msnwave4), you w
IMO some of your ideas (eg. transparent contact list) are actually not well
suited for standard Kopete, but instead for a Plasmoid that lives in vertical
Plasma panel.
You can -- kind of -- already get a similar result by dropping Lancelot's
contacts component into a vertical Plasma panel.
I use
:55 PM, wrote:
> http://img707.imageshack.us/my.php?image=plasmadesktope28894.jpg
I like the idea of making the user interface simpler, however I don't
think this mockup brings Kopete to a more usable state:
- Identity is a very complex term that most people just don't get in
combination with t
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:22:10 dantti85-...@yahoo.com.br wrote:
> In the mean time ( i think trunk is frozen now)
Nope, trunk is currently open for feature commits.
> >Have you talked to the usability folks about
> >
> > this? Moving the application menu to the bottom left is probably quite
>
> A simple user comment. It is GREAT to improve UI, but the thing which I
> really hate from
> kopete (despite I love to use it) is its stability, and its missing things
> (specially in msn protocol compared to others like
> pidgin).
Well _IMHO_ one of the reasons about missing things is beca
> De: Raphael Kubo da Costa
Hmmm.
> I find some changes such as the protocol tabs interesting, and could not
> understand some points (transparent with a blur effect? user image
> plasmoid?).
With composite the konsole gets transparent, but for readability it's good
to have a blur effect on th
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:55:23 dantti85-...@yahoo.com.br wrote:
> >De: Raphael Kubo da Costa
> >Committing directly to trunk probably means you'll already have a
> >completely functional new UI for everything for the SC 4.6 release.
> >
> >It'd be nice if you could post some screenshots of the
On Miércoles 21 Julio 2010 21:55:23 dantti85-...@yahoo.com.br escribió:
> >De: Raphael Kubo da Costa
> >Committing directly to trunk probably means you'll already have a
> >completely functional new UI for everything for the SC 4.6 release.
> >
> >It'd be nice if you could post some screenshots of
>De: Raphael Kubo da Costa
>Committing directly to trunk probably means you'll already have a completely
>functional new UI for everything for the SC 4.6 release.
>It'd be nice if you could post some screenshots of the main changes you intend
>to make. Posting review requests via ReviewBoard wo
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:10:27 dantti85-...@yahoo.com.br wrote:
> hi list,
> I and a friend we use/like kopete, but
> at the same time we kind of hate it,
> it works well but the user interface
> is really bad from our pov.
>
> We have several ideas to make it better
> but we believe not every
hi list,
I and a friend we use/like kopete, but
at the same time we kind of hate it,
it works well but the user interface
is really bad from our pov.
We have several ideas to make it better
but we believe not everyone will like
it, we started a fork in gitorious named KIM
to get an idea of the cod
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