[Adium-devl] User Interface Idea's Chat Window and other thoughs

[Bart van de Biezen]

I have some remarks about the user interface from the chat window:
- Emoticon icon is on the top: mouse movements are long. Because  
people start to point to the input field before they type (mental- 
image). Therefor I would suggest to move the emoticon icon to bottom  
of the window.
- People use a few icons most of the time. Adium could count and  
store which emoticons are used most often. These few "favorite  
emoticons" could be displayed in a more convenient way to the user.
- Search could be available right in the chat window to that  
particular person.
- Chat input field doesn't really look like an input field. I think  
this should be more emphasized.

I quickly converted these points into a picture:

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I also had some other thoughts. Just generally:
- Adding a person from address book should work without selecting an  
im service. Adium should enable all the possible ways of contacting  
that person.
- When it is someone's birthday the status icon could be a birthday- 
cake or something?
- if there is a unread im, the first part of this text could replace  
the status message of the contact person.
- Making the contact list the "tabs". I have to think more about this :)

kind regards,
Bart van de Biezen