[Adium-devl] Support for adding new view?

[Ofri Wolfus]

I must say I don't like the Finder's info window as it wastes lots of  
space when you have few sections opened. I suggest allowing plugins  
to add new tabs to the panel and stay with the current look (maybe  
use PSMTabs?).

- Ofri

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On 10/11/2006, at 23:04, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> If the disclosable view concept is used I think it'll be relatively
> hard to make the overall view look horrible, because each "part"
> becomes its own functional segment defined by the content rect,
> disclosure button and title. So an info window plugin would need to
> provide a view and a localized title and then handle itself. Thus the
> worse that could happen is a badly laid out section of controls, but
> its contained, and the majority will likely be owned by the core, so
> it should be a negligible impact as ours will be 'best of breed'.
> Disjointed, possibly.
>
> That's my .02, unadjusted.
>
> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
>
> On Nov 10, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>> On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris brings up an excellent point -- we were thinking of adding an
>>>> International area to the get info window (it's getting a facelift
>>>> soon, more on that as I have time to write it) with per-user Spell
>>>> Check prefs and timezone information.
>>>
>>> The translation plugin could be included and integrated to an
>>> International area, as well.
>>>
>>> The Get Info window used to be dynamically built up using views
>>> supplied by multiple plugins... but it turns out to be a huge hassle
>>> to make these look good together.  Not an argument against, really,
>>> but just something to keep in mind in implementing a rewrite.
>>
>> The plan is to make something that looks a lot like the Finder's Get
>> Info window. I haven't even hit the mockup stage for this yet, so i
>> can't really tell you what it's going to end up looking like other
>> than that.
>>
>> -Colin
>>
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