[Adium-devl] Previous Conversations Viewer?

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:04 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Jun 18, 2006, at 00:12:48, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
>> Actually, if we don't end up with Chat on it, then we should  
>> change the File menu up to match.
>
> I disagree. The Log Viewer is for archived chats. The File menu  
> deals with current ones.

It makes sense for our terminology for "series of messages sent from  
you to one or more people within a single context along with his/her/ 
their responses" to be consistent across things-happening-now and  
things-which-happened-in-the-past, though.  The idea of a log or a  
transcript is an artificial one, a file construct... the important  
thing is that the user is either participating in a chat (happening- 
now) or reviewing a past chat (happened-in-the-past).  The IRC log  
and subsequent comments support this way of thinking, I think.

We say File->New Chat, for example.  That creates a chat, in which  
you then talk.

I think my suggested 'Conversations' is bad -- we don't use that term  
anywhere else.  How about patr1ck's suggestion of just using Chat?  
(He talked about it in terms of consistency with iChat, which doesn't  
really exist since iChat has no log viewer.. but the idea's still a  
good one).

File->New Chat
File->Join Group Chat
File->Close Chat
etc.

Contact->View Previous Chats

Window->Previous Chats
or
Window->Previous Chat Viewer

and the log viewer's window title is one of those two.

Thoughts?

-Evan

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