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

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On Apr 8, 2007, at 4:36 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Here's what I have so far:
>
> 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
My thoughts would be that I like Tick's screens a fair bit, the above  
I'd say could be better if it was

  [icon]  [count]  Name      [close]

and count could be a variant for the status icon. I say this layout  
works to me because it's easy to track with the eye, the above and  
alterations of it keep items in various X, Y spots across the cell  
and the disjointedness makes the eye jump around in cell and in list.

As to the sizing issue, one trick we could employ is to detect when  
the list is 'full' and then jack the size of the icons down until  
they reach a minimum. This is like how the sidebar in the Finder  
behaves as you shrink it. Mousing down and holding on the icon could  
then produce a 'zoomed' full size image (it's an easy trick to do so.)

- brian 'bgannin' ganninger

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