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>>On 3/6/02 11:11, "Jonathan Baumgartner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>What would be *really* cool would be a tabbed window interface, like
>>>Mozilla or Adium. That's probably a significant amount of work,
>>>though. It would solve this problem, though.
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>>Why do people think that this is good UI design? It doesn't scale well,
>>reduces visibility, and makes it more difficult to work with multiple
>>conversations.
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>Maybe, instead of a tab window interface, there could be a side
>drawer with a list of open conversations, such that the names can be
>scrolled through vertically.
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>I still think all of these ideas are a bad thing�, however.
>Firstly, because there is no correct way to sort IMHO (ie not by
>last accessed conversation, and definitely not in alphabetical order
>in my case, due to the number of people I talk to).
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>just my -2 cents,
>Chris
I think that the tabbed interface is optimal for people who have
between 2 and say 5 conversations open at a time. If you've got many
more than that the drawer might be better, although you are certainly
right about there being no one *correct* way to sort. There are many
*good* ways to sort, however. (i.e. instantiation order, pending
events order, user defined order, etc.)
I would think that if you're talking to so many people that a
scrolled list view isn't sufficient, that separate windows would bite
as well, but I wouldn't know. There aren't that many people who want
to talk to me :) Or maybe I'm misunderstanding you.
Brent
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