[Adium-devl] On 1.3 and User Notification

[Elliott Harris]

On Sep 22, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Zachary West wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
>
> One of the major problems in Adium is the dialog errors that we  
> have. There's no integrated area that we provide notification for  
> the user. In Pidgin and a few other clients, the space above the  
> contact list can be used to provide information.

Sounds nice, I could see this as being very useful.

> I think we should provide a central notification area like this for  
> almost all things that can generate information. I don't like the  
> idea of a dialog popping up in my face. We can use the events  
> system to provide audible/visual notifications of such errors.  
> Here's a few examples of what I mean:
>
>
> "X contacts awaiting approval" whose on-click action would open a  
> (new) authorizations window. One window for all authorization  
> requests.
>
> "X accounts are offline" whose on-click would open the accounts  
> window.
>
>
> "Z new mail messages" -- one for each account, I think, would be  
> cleanest/easiest -- which would launch the email for it.
>

All good stuff.


>
> This might require integrating some of the contact list styles, or  
> getting rid of random ones (like contact to fit).
>
> Any thoughts on such a system?

Indeed. I think we can kill around 16 birds with one stone here. I  
could definitely see 1.3 being the "Bottom-Bar" update, and I think  
that this notification system, along with searching and sorting would  
be three good candidates for such a thing. It has the added bonus of  
not needing to change contact list styles, however it may have an  
effect on Borderless users, and the design of a bottom bar for those  
types of users would be interesting, but we're all smart people eh?

It'd be even better if we could integrate all of these with Growl (if  
we don't already). Perhaps even by default for all Growl  
installations (once again, if we don't already).

Cheers,
Elliott


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