Hi, I'm working on a UI proposal for the ccard's/properties window. Firstly I want to make some things clear: * this proposal gets rid of "inline" ccards, they were (imo) a nice idea UI-wise to show the data but we have more data to show and we should make it all a bit more clear and easier. * this proposal mostly works like the way youness implemented the ccards but tries to make the ccards more in a general "user properties screen"
So, what do I propose: When a buddy icon is clicked, a ccard pops up, where it should pop up should be thought about as it is important interface-wise. A mockup for this ccard is in attachement. This ccard already shows a bit more data then WLM's; it shows the email addres, a button to change notes, a button to change alarms, an "advanced" button .... like we have now in the properties screen, everything on this ccard should have a right-click menu where one can choose "copy to clipboard". For the nickname, psm and display picture, there should be a "options" menu-item, clicking this opens another window where onne can set custom DPs, or custom nicknames, custom color of a nickname etc... Clicking the advanced button makes the window in what I have in my other mockup. Firstly, it adds 3 "edit" buttons, one after nickname, psm, and one hovered on a corner op the dp. Clicking those buttons does the same as rightclicking the items and choosing "options". Another thing that happens when you click the "advanced" button (the button should stay pressed then), is the window growing bigger. The window should then show firstly some extra data of the user, and then allow for some other settings that are special for that user. This extra space will probably be a TK frame so it won't have that nice background, but that's not such a problem. I didn't add all options on my mockup, but you can check our properties window now to see what is needed. Why do I propose this ? Well, we have to much different ways to show user data: I wanted to add inline spaces data (ok, my bad), we will have ccards, we have a properties window and we have a tooltip... this should be reduced imo. I think the tooltip has too much information right now. It should have dp/nick/psm/music and not more I guess. About this proposal, nick/psm are truncated but they should have a tooltip with the full string. My question now: what's your opinion about this ? What would you like differently ? ... Karel. PS: I don't have much time now but I did this as a spare time project between my study-hours; If I don't respond to e-mail quickly, it doesn't mean I'm not interested in your replies thus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
