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

[Colin Barrett]

On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Dear Clin,
>
> I hope you hear from Colin soon!  Would you please give him this  
> message?

I'm sorry Ean, I can't do that.

> On Jan 27, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>>
>> 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 :(
>
> Yeah, I like minimalist (that's the Positive word for 'bare bones')  
> for set up wizards.  Ours makes a HUGE difference in the first-run  
> experience.  It should be no more than at most one pane longer, and  
> I agree that that might be pushing it.  I mentioned previously that  
> this might be one of perhaps three vital core preferences which  
> could be controlled at first-run time... the hard limit is no more  
> than one pane, and if we can decide on perfect default behaviors we  
> should avoid that.  I spoke too soon in saying that adding an  
> offline-visibility toggle to the first run wizard is definitely 1.1  
> material -- I meant to say that it's a good candidate.

I think Bare Bones is a positive word ;) (makes me think of BBEdit on  
Mac OS. Mmmm, BBEdit on Mac OS).  It definitely does improve first run  
experience a ton.

Definitely agree with hard limit of one additional pane -- it was the  
metric in my mind as well.

Offline users is a good candidate, but the text that was presented is  
far, far too wordy. How about?

"Would you like Adium to show offline users in your contact list?
You can change this later by going to the view menu."

Even that is a bit much, but I think telling them where to change the  
pref later is important.

-Cin
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