UI overhaul

[Sam Hewitt]

I can sketch another mock-up implementing (and tweaking) the
aforementioned. :)

-imagine your window is 500px tall and each contact row takes 30px, that
means 400px of grayspace.

I was thinking that the contact row would be 50px, thus 22px status icons
and the "lozenge" would fit nicely, as well any text. :)

Sam

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Martin Klapetek
<martin.klapetek at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Sam Hewitt <hewittsamuel at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'll offer my apologies then, miscommunication has definitely occurred
>> which I've been involved in; I just volunteered some assistance and drew a
>> quick mock-up of some ideas.
>
>
> Thanks, I'm more than happy to continue working with you. So let's put
> this behind and focus on the work at hand.
>
>
>>
>> To address your points/questions/concerns:
>>
>> I (like to think I) understand the POV of developers -I do some
>> rudimentary (an overstatement) development- given the code does limit
>> design in a way.
>>
>> The icons right of the entry box are indeed for emoticons and an "attach
>> file" icon -which I would agree isn't necessary given not all protocols
>> under telepathy support file transfer.
>>
>
> We actually had an emoticon button with a full formatting toolbar, which
> was completely killed this week. I was thinking about readding the emoticon
> button and I think that putting it next to the text input would be good.
>
> <snip>
>
>  - search always enabled in the chat part
>>
>> The search was meant to be a contact list search for the ultra-popular
>> users, not a search through the backlog for the chat history.
>>
>
> Here the search would be a bit confusing, because it sits on top of the
> chatting area, so it would imply that it will search through the chat
> rather than the list. Also keep in mind that the chat have a search of its
> own. Maybe if the search was moved down to the chat toolbar (as there's
> empty space right below it) for searching the chat and the searching field
> for contact list could be moved to the left?
>
>
>>
>>
> - "if you're in a chat, do you want to see all your contacts"?
>>
>> - If the only way to start a chat was via the contact list, I'd agree. If
>> we were completely standalone I'd agree.
>>
>> I agree with this, I don't want to see them; I understand the logic of a
>> single window mode but I'm not a fan -contrary to the vehement of others.
>>
>> - I do want to try a vertical list on the text-ui rather than the tabs
>> for all your ongoing chats. I think that would be a good
>> experiment to do and test on a group of people.
>>
>> If one were to consider the vertical list in my mock-up to be simply for
>> all active chats, and not a complete list of contacts, then it would be
>> more cohesive with the ideas in motion. ;)
>>
>
> I'm thinking what if you have only two or three opened chats? Then you
> have lots of wasted space on the side of the chat ui; imagine your window
> is 500px tall and each contact row takes 30px, that means 400px of
> grayspace.
>
> Also I really like the simplification of the contact list toolbar and I'm
> happy to implement it. We most certainly don't need all those buttons to be
> there (I think the only buttons having a real value in there is the "show
> offline contacts" and "find contact").
>
> --
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>
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