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> > Indent groups in the Buddy list preferences seems to really hide the
>> service icons. :))
>
>Yeah. Once I figure out how to insert an arbitrary (ie, residing in memory,
>not on disk) image into an attributed string, they'll show up again, only
>more to the right.
>
>Do people even really want this option? I was trying to make the window
>more compact, and having them in the left column like that saves same white
>space.
I do really like them, because they are a nice and inobtrusive way to
see the status and service of the budy in question.
> > If I remember the HIG correctly red should be avoided as a color for
>> an interface element.
>>
>> It tells something like: "Dont use red, as it is a signall color and
>> draws the mouse to click on it, rather than to prevent it."
>
>Suggest an alternative.
I don�t really have a perfect solution, but I was thinking of
something along the line of having as less colors as possible.
First I think that the three Availability classes should share colors
Online, Available, Idle, Free for Chat shold be one, Busy, Occupied,
AFK the next and Away, N/A and Offline probably the last one. ( I
dont know about Invissible though) (Would Idle be placed right there?
I have a somewhat limited understanding of this "state").
Right now I am thinking about severall aproaches.
- The first would be to have no color at all (maybe this could be a
preference just where the color is, something like "dont use colors
at all"), so only the icons transport the message.
- The second is that default would be some sort of Aqua shades, that
become darker to tell me how bad it would be to message that person.
White would be the default color for available then. This decission
would be based on the fact that the human eye is much more cabable of
seeing shades of light than seeing colors. (Problem with my own
attempts to find such colors was, that the small letters didn�t
provide enough contrast to the white background.)
- A variation of this could be making the away stats brighter, so
it is harder to see them. But that I also don�t really like.
- Right now I use a color variant that hase the online group in
black, the occcupied group in light red, and the away/na group in
even lighter red, so that light that the red doesn�t distract.
- A third approach would be to mostly stay with the colors but make
them lighter, so the alert color function of red (for example)
doesn�t come into effect. (But I don't like that because green for
occupied doesn�t have any meaning in Germany)
- Another aproach would be to only use colors to code when someone
changes status. So for examle green for signing on (would be
meaningfull here) and red for signing off.
What do you think?
cu Martin
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