[Adium-devl] Fwd: bottom bar search concepts

[Paul Wilde]

Forwarding to adium-devl for further discussion/thoughts on my mockups.

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> From: Evan Schoenberg <evan at adiumx.com>
> Date: 5 February 2007 14:50:28 GMT
> To: Paul Wilde <paulwilde at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: bottom bar search concepts
>
> That's a cool mockup.  Why don't you send that on to adium-devl? :)
>
> I think I'd actually shrink the contact list area, putting the  
> search field right above the existing bar of buttons, when the  
> maginifying glass was clicked.
>
> -Evan
>
> On Feb 4, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Paul Wilde wrote:
>
>> http://www.paulwilde.co.uk/adium/bottombar_nonactive.jpg
>>
>> This is how it'd display as default. The first button is to add  
>> buddies, the second one is to search through your contacts on your  
>> list. I guess a group, and/or offline contacts toggle button would  
>> also be great. Not sure how that could be visually represented  
>> though.
>>
>> http://www.paulwilde.co.uk/adium/bottombar_search_grey_active.jpg
>>
>> Upon clicking  the search button a search box appears (sliding  
>> down animation possibly?). It could also be blue instead of the  
>> dark grey to represent Spotlight more, but I've just used the  
>> colour when you press the button in Mail.app (for example) to get  
>> an idea on what it'll be like.
>>
>> In the text field, on the left side where the arrow icon is, it'd  
>> be a nice idea if you could select to search your contact list,  
>> chatlogs (when pressing enter upon typing an input), and possibly  
>> adapt it to include Google search?
>>
>> The concepts are a bit ugly (especially the edges of the search  
>> box), but you get the idea.
>

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