A couple of HIG questions regarding KDE Telepathy

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:05 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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 ;) ]
>>

That's looking good.

>> 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.
>>

What was wrong with each of those solutions? (especially the tick
mark). Otherwise we'll just end up discussing the same ideas on the ML
that you've already gone through on IRC. Also we might be able to come
up with a fix for whatever problems you envisioned.

>> Any ideas on how to do this would be highly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>> Rohan Garg
>> www.launchpad.net/~rohangarg
>>
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>

(also sorry for my last empty email, I was trying to reply on my phone
and failed. Failed miserably.)