[Adium-devl] Support for adding new view?

[disposable at infinitenexus.com]

Tabs are currently used there, and using our full, or even part of,  
tabs implementation is overkill IMO [who needs to reorder the them,  
or tear them off, or have icon cells, etc.] I agree with Colin that  
the Finder Info window UI presents a clear and modular essence, in  
line with how most palette/panel types behave. Tabs are becoming a  
more narrowly focused item as the OS matures, at least to me.

- brian 'bgannin' ganninger

On Nov 10, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Ofri Wolfus wrote:

> 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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> On 10/11/2006, at 23:04, 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.
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>> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
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>> On Nov 10, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:
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>>> 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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