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> Are there any plans out there to change any of the ui?
Not too sure in the long run. Doubtful to any serious degree in the very
near (like next two weeks) future.
> 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)
As a preference, this would be pretty nice.
> - Use some sort of tabbed ui to manage multiple conversations inside one
> window.
No. I've used this before. It doesn't work when you have 15 tabs (which
I routinly have as many windows in Fire, or more if I'm doing lots of
private messaging in IRC)
> - Have the Windows be "attacheable" to each other, to manage them more
> easily on screen
This would be pretty nice. I don't know how well the attaching code could
be used for window->window relationships.
> - 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.
There are a couple of GUIs for other *nix variants that do this. I think
there's a few for XDarwin now that I think about it.
> - 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)
This sounds a *lot* like NeXT's interface. (basically, like the Dock,
except you could have the icons from the dock floating anywhere...)
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> Theres more to come, but thats it for now, do you have any good Ideas too?
Perhaps on another day. I'm kinda happy with the interface as is (though
Colter has a copy of the newer, more compact and more Aqua-like
notification windows...though I dunno if people are too attached to the
old ones)
> So lets create the best ui ever to deal with this problem. ;-)
I suppose I haven't really found any of this to be a problem. But I like
a Borgesian screen ;-)
Matthew Stuckwisch
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