[Adium-devl] Source list in the message window (vertical PSMTabBarControl)

[Kent Sutherland]

I think going with the hybrid close button/status icons is more
elegant than having both of them visible at once. I *really* don't
like have the close button appear only on the active tab, as it makes
quickly closing an inactive tab harder, since you don't know exactly
where the other close buttons are. Even if you have closing inactive
tabs disabled, doing a quick double-click to close isn't always a
guarantee to close a tab.

You could take that one step further and try to combine the unread
message count, the close button and status button together. That
probably wouldn't work out, since the status icons are customizable.
It would certainly reduce tab clutter though. The tabs should probably
be a bit smaller, like the mockups Chris has. Unless we want some
iChatty special effects in the tabs, the larger tabs are mostly dead
space.

The last major problem I see is the overflow menu. Horizontal tabs
have the option of not using an overflow menu and continually
shrinking - vertical tabs don't really have that ability. So that
leaves you with either forcing an overflow widget to appear when
necessary, or coming up with some hideous tab scrolling scariness. I
don't think the tab sidebar needs the bottom widgets like in the
RightSidebarFull and MessagePane mockups, since this is being used as
a list of your open chats, not as a group chat listing (right now at
least).

The blue background and bigger tabs alone helped a lot, but I think we
could do better than slavishly copying iChat 4 :)

Kent

On 4/8/07, Chris Forsythe <chris at adiumx.com> wrote:
> - That's a weird place to put the close widget, try on the left or right.
> - The number thing is useful in the top right corner.
> - Ze Frank does not make your decisions for you. That will be your Nintendo
> Wii when you purchase one. I know it makes my decisions for me.
> - What are we doing at the bottom of the sidebar?
>
> Something like this?
> http://brok3n.org/rawr/LeftSidebar.jpg
>
> Or more like this?
> http://brok3n.org/rawr/RightSidebarFull.jpg
>
> Everyone knows I'm a fan of this one:
> http://brok3n.org/rawr/Old/MessagePane.png
>
> - Try it without a dividing line between contacts.
> - Are we going to throw status icons in here somewhere?
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:36 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> Here's what I have so far:
> <Picture 2.png>
>
> Anyone have thoughts on where this should go?  (That's the PSMTabBarControl
> demo app, btw).  It's 5:30 and I've been hacking on one thing after another
> in a bit of a manic episode this evening... the preferences stuff and
> libpurple and a bit of the bonjour-xmpp work and this PSMTabBarControl
> mod... so I don't have any more thinking left in me.  Ze Frank's gone, so
> someone needs to think so I don't have to ;-)
>
> Mockups get bonus points!
>
> -Evan
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