[Adium-devl] Previous Conversations Viewer?

[Jeffrey Melloy]

My mom just passed the "log" test.  I like "Chat Transcripts" better  
than "Previous Conversations" because "Chat Transcripts" seems a  
little more precise to me.

Jeff
On Jun 18, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> 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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