[Adium-devl] Yet another nitpicking UI discussion

Christopher Forsythe chris at growl.info
Tue Apr 25 04:42:51 UTC 2006


Seconded on all counts from Colin. Especially that last one.

Can someone take a look at the patch Wengero added to this ticket:  
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3874 ? He's been putting patches up a  
lot recently, any thoughts on the quality of them? (i.e. maybe a new  
dev? :D)

Chris


On Apr 24, 2006, at 11:33 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> 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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