[Adium-devl] Support for adding new view?

[Ofri Wolfus]

Should we really get a lot of stuff in there? The more stuff in the  
panel, the more questions users will have, and unlike the prefs  
window (which also has a lot of stuff in it) the info panel is  
something that's constantly used.

- Ofri

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On 10/11/2006, at 23:21, Chris Forsythe wrote:

> I really don't think that scales in a manner that would be pleasing to
> the eyes once we get a lot of stuff in there Ofri.
>
> Chris
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> Ofri Wolfus wrote:
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>> 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?).
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>> - Ofri
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>> On 10/11/2006, at 23:04, disposable at infinitenexus.com
>> <mailto:disposable at infinitenexus.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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