Nice; I was just bitching about this on IRC earlier this evening. ;-) One recommendation I'd have is to lose the "Global user information" from the server selection dialog - it's a dialog for server selection, after all. ;-) Perhaps have a button for "User configuration" or something like that as the alternative action in the dialog, perhaps?
You might want to bring [email protected] into this too, they are great there when it comes to helping getting a good UI. ^,^ On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 18:05, Joe Drew wrote: > This is probably of interest to debian-gtk-gnome-ers, too. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > From: Joe Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Project 'Make X-Chat's UI not suck' > Date: 24 Feb 2003 17:34:49 -0500 > > In my experience, X-Chat as an IRC client is great. However, for new > users and less technical people it leaves a lot to be desired. I aim to > change that. > > The first problem is that X-Chat's interface is very busy. There are a > lot of buttons and toggles, and a lot of "close" or "open" buttons where > there need not be any. In addition, there are some pretty bad UI > decisions, like radio buttons which reveal UI elements (principle of > least confusion applies here.) > > To that end, I've started with simplifying the Server Selection > dialogue. I've chosen to adhere to the GNOME interface guidelines, > because it's a very good set of user interface ideas, and also because > most GTK+ 2 programs will tend to use it. > > You can see the current progress (my dialogue is on the left) at > http://capricorn.woot.net/~jdrew/xchat-serverlist.png . My current plan > is to cause Edit to open a dialogue with the same contents as the "edit" > mode of the current server dialogue (tweaked, of course, for usability). > Add will probably be a very similar dialogue with "Network name" empty > at the top. Currently, both Add and Edit are non-functional, a > deficiency I plan to fix. > > I'm writing to solicit comments, suggestions and (yes) even flames. I > have no desire to create my own IRC client or to fork X-Chat; all I want > is an great IRC client with a UI that doesn't suck. > > Thanks, > Joe
