[Adium-devl] Yet another nitpicking UI discussion

Colin Barrett timber at lava.net
Tue Apr 25 04:33:27 UTC 2006


I agree with what Evan said. Preferences : begone, indeed.

As far as the Mail prefs suggestion, I think this would be great.

Brian, I'm really appreciating your return. Your attention to detail  
has been missed. Welcome back :)

-Colin

On Apr 25, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> I'd never even noticed, but you're right. Preferences : begone.
>
> Low priority side note: Playing with Mail's preferences, I noticed  
> something else interesting: window resizing is enabled on panes  
> where you might want to resize (the Mail Signatures pane for  
> example).  The prefs window notes the size of the pane and restores  
> it next time you switch to that pane, including across the window  
> closing/opening.  The Accounts, Personal, Status, and Events panes  
> would be reasonable candidates for similar behavior.
>
> -Evan
>
> On Apr 24, 2006, at 11:45 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
>
>> So... I wanted to put a question to the group at large and see what
>> the feeling was.
>>
>> Is there any reason we need to have Preferences : in front of the
>> title of each pane when loaded in the Preferences window? I know the
>> logical reason of "it shows what it's a part of" but it seems to me
>> to be another one of those 'just how Adium's different' features
>> rather than a benefit since it deviates from the standard of other
>> apps, which is to just show the pane title (such as in Mail, Safari,
>> iChat, System Preferences, etc.)
>>
>> Any objections to changing it to be more in line or does the
>> rationale above make sense?
>>
>> - brian
>>
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