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On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 11:43 AM, David M. Ensteness wrote:
> The one thing I don't want to happen is a tab based multi-chat system
> like Adium has, while I love tabs in browsers like Mozilla I hate them in
> chat windows.
And that is the one thing I really want and need. Until Apple decides to
bring back the virtual workspace idea they dropped from NextStep there
just isn't enough space to have multiple windows all over the place.
Tabbed message windows are a must. Of course they'd be an option since
not everyone likes them.
Here's how I see it. A single window multiple tabs. The tab gets
highlighted when a message arrives. What would be cool is if you can
option drag a tab to make it it's own window and conversely option drag a
window to another window to make them 'tabbed' with the window being
dragged to setting the size. This would allow clustering as well as
single windows if so desired.
Minimizing (or hiding) the window until I get a few messages isn't a great
solution since I have no idea who sent me the message until I bring Fire
back up. It's much easier for me to have a consistent place to check with
my eyes. Not to mention a highlighted tab takes up much less cpu cycles
than multiple pulsing windows or the genie effect of minimizing/maximizing.
Anyway I bought the Hillegas book and so maybe I'll be able to do this
myself one day. We shall see. In the meantime I still dig Fire more than
anything else out there and I love the fact that it's a community thang.
greg
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