[Adium-devl] MSNp15 (libpurple im.pidgin.pidgin) in Adium 1.3.x

David Smith catfish.man at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 20:02:06 UTC 2008


On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:58 AM, John Bailey wrote:
>> That's basically what I was implying. Any UI •could• be generated
>> programatically, but doing so for any but the very simplistic of
>> dialogues is difficult. The request fields api, for example, is
>> implemented but looks out of place, as it is presented via an HTML
>> form in a web widget.
>
> Ouch.  It sounds like I should be greatful I don't mess with UI on  
> OS X
> then.
>
> John

No system I'm aware of allows for automatically generating *good* UIs.  
I regard data forms as the worst part of XMPP for this reason.

		David




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