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I agree with Colter. It's cool! but I find it too cluttered. Definitely
should be something a user can turn off and on.
...SPY
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> David,
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> It looks great. But I have a couple questions/concerns.
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> First, this should definitely be a preference that you can turn off. I
> think the icon just looks too cluttered. When I log in, I know what
> services I've logged in to, and I don't know that I'd need to be constantly
> glancing down at the dock to see which services are connected. It would
> help show when one service unexpectedly drops offline, but then I'd have to
> stop and think which dots were lit up before, and which one isn't now...
> What about a "You have been disconnected from X" notification window (the
> racing stripe kind)?
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> Second, I'm already working on reflecting the current status (Away, Idle,
> Busy, etc.) in the dock icon. This probably won't conflict, since the badge
> can just be placed on top of whatever the icon is.
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> Third, and perhaps my strongest concern, is that this will reinforce the
> one-login-per-service limitation that Fire currently has. I'm not trying to
> imply that this is going to change any time soon, but I don't want to
> introduce a spiffy new feature that's going to break when/if Fire does get
> the ability to support multiple logins per service. Perhaps an online
> services dot?
>
> Colter
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> On 1/19/02 12:51, "Ernest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Pleasepleaseplease include this! This is HEAVENLY!
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>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I downloaded the new release of Fire yesterday, and was amazed to see how
>>> incredibly it has evolved since the Public Beta days when I last checked it
>>> out seriously. ICQ support is now terrific, and the GUI is superior to any
>>> of the other clones!
>>>
>>> So, when I saw how cool it had become, I instantly felt an urge to help make
>>> it even better. So, I checked out the source over anonymous CVS and browsed
>>> the source for a while. Then I made a modification that you may want to
>>> include in an upcoming version.
>>>
>>> Take a look at these pictures:
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>>> http://www.ittpoi.com/allservices.jpg
>>> http://www.ittpoi.com/onlyactive.jpg
>>>
>>> As you can see, what I did was to add a visual indication of what services
>>> are online to the icon, to complement the online user display. This is about
>>> 30 minutes worth of work, so it isn't exactly refined, and even though I
>>> coded in defaults for it, I haven't made a suitable GUI for it, mainly
>>> because I wanted to hear if the moderators would like it to become a feature
>>> in a future version. If you do, I would gladly make the additional
>>> adjustments to facilitate the feature.
>>>
>>> Maybe the non-active services should also be drawn in their circles, but at
>>> .4 opacity or in black and white or something like that...
>>>
>>> I hade to change the structure a little bit in the dock icon updating, in
>>> order to allow for this feature. I added a method and moved a few things
>>> around in the user number drawing. It shouldn't be difficult at all to
>>> integrate, though.
>>>
>>> So, Eric, would you like something like this, or should I scrap the idea and
>>> find something else to do? :)
>>>
>>> / Sincerely, David Remahl
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