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Just so everyone knows. You can all stop talking about one chat window
with multiple tabs. It's not a UI I favor and definitely not one I will
code.
However, I do have some very creative ideas on how we can use less
screen real estate, be more informative when messages come in and still
provide optional and effective window management.
Once I get back into the Fire coding swing (Colter has been handling it
damn effectively for the last 6 months or so) I will implement
something. I *may* wait until after the new Buddy List gets released
before I start working on it and I *may* not.
Please keep new and inventive ideas (i.e. NOT tabs) coming in, but I
think I have a doosy that will make all sides happy once I unveil it (or
I could be wrong - we'll just see :-)).
Eric
On Saturday, April 20, 2002, at 12:17 PM, J. Greg Williams wrote:
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> On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 11:43 AM, David M. Ensteness wrote:
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>> 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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> It is by the beans of Java that the thoughts acquire speed,
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