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

[Peter Hosey]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 17:28:41, Colin Barrett wrote:
> Does iChat have it? What about MSN, what do they have? If they're  
> different, perhaps those defaults should be set up on a heuristic,  
> based on what accounts they add, and in what order.

The problem comes from having mixed accounts. I *really* don't want  
to have different accounts having different offline-hiding settings.

It should be left to user choice, and because of the confusion it  
causes, we ought to present that choice in the wizard.

> UI idea that popped into my head to consider: hover over a group  
> and the offline contacts for it show up.

Nobody'll hover over it.

Another way might be a cell at the end of every group that says “42  
contacts hidden (offline)”. OTOH, I don't particularly want that for  
myself.

Alternative to the wizard idea:
⁃ Show Offline Contacts
⁃ Count Offline Contacts ←Default
⁃ Hide Offline Contacts

We could debate the wording.

> Something like that would certainly make *my* life easier (I have a  
> zillion people on my list).

Maybe get the QS plug-in working, then hide the contact list and use  
QS. ;)

> Perhaps we should consider some buttons on the bottom (including a  
> gear menu).

Nobody uses Action buttons. They are one step up from contextual menus.

What if we put a toolbar along the right side of the contact list?  
(Totally 1.2+.) It'd take advantage of having more vertical space  
than horizontal on most contact lists.

> Maybe accounts should be on the left, with a vertical separator  
> between it and General.

Sounds good.
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