A couple of HIG questions regarding KDE Telepathy

[David Edmundson]

On 3 May 2011 22:27, "Rohan Garg" <rohan16garg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I've been working on improving the usability of KDE Telepathy a bit
> and recently made a couple of changes as to how one can set the IM
> Status.I'm attaching a image of my work, the image on the left
> represents the older GUI whereas the the one on the right shows the
> newer GUI [ yes, my GIMP skills are bad ;) ]
>
> Now, the main issue i am facing is that after i remove the radio
> buttons ( which in my opinion make the UI look cluttered ), how do i
> represent to the user that his current IM Status is, say Online? We
> discussed a couple of scenarios on IRC, like making the current status
> as Bold/Italics, or using a tick mark next to the current status,
> using a different highlight color etc but none of the ideas were
> satisfactory and had one issue or the other.
>
> Any ideas on how to do this would be highly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Rohan Garg
> www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg
>
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