[Adium-devl] Room/Server Bookmarking UI Design

[Graham Booker]

On Jul 16, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Jul 16, 2007, at 07:29:16, E. E. Beerepoot wrote:
>> Upon thinking about it some more, and talking it over with a few  
>> others, it seems the best two solutions are: using tabs, or using  
>> groups.
>
> Why not integrate them into the CL with the other contact types?
>
> Groups
> 	Contacts
> 	Metacontacts
> 		Contacts
> 	Group-chat bookmarks
>
> You could have a bookmark icon (like the Safari one) distinguishing  
> bookmarked group chats.
>

This is precisely what we did in Fire.  We treated the room much like  
a buddy, and users didn't have issues differentiating their use  
(since they had a different icon).  Interestingly enough, we called  
the class BookmarkItem (where groups were GroupItem, metacontacts  
were PersonItem, and buddies were BuddyItem).

> This seems like it's the next logical step from a single group to  
> which group-chat bookmarks are consigned. Why should the user only  
> be able to put them in that group?
>

I agree.  I would group contacts/bookmarks based on their context.

> An easy way to think of this is to think of a regular contact or  
> metacontact as a one-to-one-chat bookmark (already backed up by the  
> Add Contact menu item's shortcut being ⌘D, the same as Safari's  
> Add Bookmark); a group-chat bookmark would just be a new kind of  
> bookmark.

We did the same.  We had the menu have the ability to add buddies,  
groups, and bookmarks.



- Graham


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