[Adium-devl] Some discussed preference changes

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> A few weeks ago several of us hopped onto an IRC channel and  
> discussed some preference changes. Instead of plowing ahead on  
> things I thought I'd share some mockups to see what everyone  
> thought of the proposed changes.
>
> Note 1: General is the first preference pane in the toolbar to  
> match all other OS X apps.
>
General first is common.. however, Accounts its a pretty important  
pane.  Is there an HIG expectation that General be first, or is this  
just a generic consistency thing?

> Note 2: the image view + button is replaced by the contact list's  
> snazzy icon selector instead
I like.  I think we should give it a border, or a recessed well, or  
something, to set it off from the area around it -- basically look a  
lot like it does in current source, except making use of the recent  
pics selector.

> Note 3: informative text of some kind would likely be useful, but I  
> didn't put a ton of thought into some :)
What do you think needs saying, in general?  Something along the  
lines of, "These settings can be overridden on a per-account basis  
via the Accounts pane."?

> Although I'm sure you've all seen the selector in action I've  
> included a shot below. For this section it would be customized to  
> remove the account selecting parts (since this is a global picker)
That bit's easily done, fo shizzle :)

Chris wrote:
> Also, how does it look without the divider line?
Bad.  The previous incarnation had the right half in a shaded curved- 
edges box, which I was a fan of... though after using the dividing  
line for a couple days I think it's basically six one way half dozen  
the other.  Definitely some division between the two halves is needed.

-Evan
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