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On 4/18/02 14:34, "Martin H�cker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any plans out there to change any of the ui?
Not anytime soon, no.
> 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)
A toolbar button (or something) to indicate that this conversation continues
the previous conversation was on my to-do list. It would have "stitched"
the current conversation to the previous one, and repeatably so.
> - Use some sort of tabbed ui to manage multiple conversations inside
> one window.
Ewww. I seriously believe this is a bad idea. Part of what we're trying to
solve here is not being able to tell when a conversation has new
information. I don't think obfuscating 100% of the window content is going
to help things any.
> - Have the Windows be "attacheable" to each other, to manage them
> more easily on screen
This has been discussed among the developers. No one's quite sure of a good
algorithm to do this, though.
> - 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.
Hmmm. An "Off-Edge-Dockable" window that would slide back out (on-screen)
when there was new information posted to it. Interesting. Would need
somebody to donate a machine with multiple displays so we could properly
test this, though.
> - 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)
Another post in this thread pointed out that the dock is there. The code is
in place to blink minimized chat windows on new text, but there's some
global flag missing or something that's making it not work. You have to
explicitly tell the OS that you want to be able to do that kind of thing --
Apple makes it currently disabled by default. But hey -- it may suddenly
start working in a future OS release!
> - ���
A couple people have suggested co-opting the Proteus method of showing the
number of new messages in the window title. Something else I never got
around to.
Colter
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