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

[Colin Barrett]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 8:00 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>> 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
> That's a great candidate for a first run pref, I agree - especially  
> given my claim above that different users will fundamentally want it  
> differently.  Even if they don't know what they want, having been  
> presented the option will increase the liklihood they'll remember  
> it's changeable later.  Maybe this and two other key preferences, on  
> a second-to-last pane in the first run wizard.  Adium 1.1 material,  
> that :)

I'm really, really unfond of Wizards. Ours is pretty bare bones, and  
I'd like to keep it that way. If you'll notice, all of the Apple first  
run wizards are primarily about account setup, and include few, if any  
UI preferences.

It's a slippery slope into Windowsland :(

-Clin