[Adium-devl] Fwd: bottom bar search concepts

[Colin Barrett]

First off, awesome mock up.

I agree with Evan. Expanding the size of the window is generally  
something we don't want to do. Putting the search bar above would look  
better.

Also, a completely minor nit, but I wonder if it the resize widget  
might look a bit better if it weren't in the corner, but were a bit  
more "centered." Basically, looking like Mail.app's three vertical  
lines, except at an angle. If that doesn't make any sense, I'll just  
break out an image editor.

-Colin

On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Paul Wilde wrote:

> Forwarding to adium-devl for further discussion/thoughts on my  
> mockups.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> 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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