[Adium-devl] Some discussed preference changes

[disposable at infinitenexus.com]

On Apr 23, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

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> On Apr 23, 2006, at 6:51 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
>> On Apr 23, 2006, at 5:36 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>>> On Apr 23, 2006, at 4:08 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
>>>> 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?
>> It's a generic consistency thing because we are the only app I  
>> could find that doesn't have General as the first pane. Given that  
>> Accounts is rarely (after initial use) hit, especially with the  
>> Personal pane, and that we remember the last pane, order is not  
>> heavily important but consistency is.
> Okay - thinking it over, most of the Accounts pane usage is now  
> available or superseded elsewhere: Personal pane, as you mentioned,  
> plus enable/disable control via the menus.

Excellent :) now I just need to get it to work right for me ;)

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>>>> 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.
>> Well, the button should stay gone :) making the hover effect be  
>> the permanent effect for that well would be good IMO.
> By 'the permanent effect', do you mean that it should always look  
> the way the contact list's icon does when hovered?  I'm not sure  
> that would add much, if so -- I like a control which is going to do  
> something when clicked but not depress (as a traditional button  
> does) highlighting in some way on hover.  Please elaborate.
>

Eh, I kinda went off half-cocked here. Basically my thought is that  
the image well feels really heavy so we should have a different look  
of some form that blends more nicely. I'm open to ideas to put a  
border around it, I was just saying that perhaps we could use the  
bevel effect from the hover as the permanent effect around the image.  
That was just spitballing though.

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