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>>It would be awesome if there was a ">" inserted into the title bar
>>of chat windows that have new messages in them.
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>You can have them "blink" (fade through transparency to opaqueness)
>IIRC, I just don't do that cuz its a CPU hog. ;-)
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Yes that was the reason I also chose not to use it. :)
I really like the ideas you gave me about fire usage. Most of them
the one about having fire "collect" messages in the background and
then answering them all at once.
But I still wonder if there could be some more advanced UI to really
help in this thing.
Are there any plans out there to change any of the ui?
Some thoughts I had while thinking about this:
- Always include the history of at least the last conversation in the
chat window to give something to attach to. (This could make the "one
shot" conversations much more usable)
- Use some sort of tabbed ui to manage multiple conversations inside
one window.
- Have the Windows be "attacheable" to each other, to manage them
more easily on screen
- Have the windows "slide out of the screen" for as long as there is
no message (just almost not completely, so its still possible to get
them with the mouse). This would allow to stack all the windows in
one place (upper left corner for example) and have them slide out of
the screen when a message is typed, but slide them in when a new one
arrives.
- Same as above, but let the windows slide into the dock, or some
sort of "holding device", toolbar or whatever. (Something like the
formatting palette in Word)
- ���
Theres more to come, but thats it for now, do you have any good Ideas too?
So lets create the best ui ever to deal with this problem. ;-)
cu Martin
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