[Adium-devl] Watching a first time Adium user for 5 minutes

[Peter Hosey]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 17:04:13, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
> 1) Ran the app from the disk image.  I don't know if he would have  
> read text, but Adam Bett's cute graphics work didn't do it for him.

I suggest an on-launch warning. We can reuse the same graphic from  
the disk image, with the “Adium 1.0” header removed.

Text:

“You're running Adium from its disk image. This won't cause any  
problems, but you won't be able to eject the disk image until you  
quit Adium, because a disk can't be ejected as long as anything on it  
is in use.

If you decide you like Adium, you should quit it, drag it to your  
Applications folder using the alias on the disk image, eject the disk  
image, and finally run it from the Applications folder.

Also, is the disk image mounting in Column view for anyone else?

> 4) Growl Installation window pops up.  He eyes it.  "What is  
> this?"  Me: "Read it, then tell me."  He reads it, then looks up,  
> "I have absolutely no idea.  Some sort of other program.  Should I  
> install it?"  Me: "Well, based on what you read, what do you  
> think?"  He shrugs and clicks cancel. I know (but he doesn't) that  
> he's going to see it again on next launch... I wonder if we're just  
> going to annoy people into installing Growl.  The text in the  
> install window could probably me made more mom-and-newb-friendly.   
> I wonder to myself if he will ever check out the Events preferences.

Here's what we currently say about it:

	Adium uses the Growl notification system to provide a configurable  
interface to display status changes, incoming messages and more.
	
	This release of Adium includes an updated version of Growl. It is  
strongly recommended that you allow Adium to automatically update  
Growl; no download is required.

I recommend changing the first paragraph:

	Adium uses the Growl notification system to display status changes,  
incoming messages and more. With Growl, you can easily configure the  
appearance of these notifications.

> This makes me question showing offline people by default... I  
> certainly don't leave Show Offline Contacts enabled.  Does anyone?

Turning it off will lead to lots of feedback emails like:

	hay i ran adium from the dmg and it deleted half by buddy list but  
when i went back to ichat it was back again but when i went back to  
adium it was still gone. how do i fix this thx


I recommend putting it in the first-run wizard. Something like:

	Adium can hide contacts who are offline. They'll still be on your  
buddy list, but since you can't message them while they're offline,  
they don't need to be visible. Hiding them means that you will only  
see those contacts who are online—that is, contacts who you can  
actually message. You can always change this setting in the View menu.

	How would you like Adium to handle offline contacts?

	( ) Show offline contacts
	(•) Hide offline contacts

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Sounds like we're on the right track. :)
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\ Peter Hosey / boredzo at adiumx.com
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