[Adium-devl] On 1.3 and User Notification

[Jordan S.]

This feature, and the more general objective of displaying events and errors
is the focus right now of the 1.4 milestone - take a look at the tickets
filed there. There is one main ticket I created (with Chris' suggestion) to
converge all the individual ones about poor notification - particularly
where the user is presented with only dialogues and no choice.
See http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/7923 for details. I think that perhaps
having an 'error messages' entry in the events preference pane would be
handy. The default (and perhaps fixed) action for it would be to display in
contact list (when the feature is added), but still allow the user to add a
dialog, display via growl, sounds etc. - just like many events already are.

Jordan

On 9/22/07, Elliott Harris <excitebike at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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