[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[Colin Barrett]

Overall this sounded great, Peter. Comments inline.

On Jan 22, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> - No WebKit Message View. Think back to the 0.50 days: We heavily  
> debated pursuing WebKit because it was measurably slower than the  
> Standard (Cocoa-drawn) Message View on the machines of the day. That  
> includes my 450 MHz G4 Cube. The iPhone is about as fast as my Cube.

WK may be the easiest way to get something that looks attractive, at  
least initially. Text layout

> - Transcription. We'd need to pass transcripts to desktop Adium at  
> sync time. I have no idea whether that's possible. Users must be  
> able to turn this off and burninate all transcripts, since not  
> everyone uses desktop Adium.

It's not. Perhaps some sort of WebDAV based sync a la OmniFocus, but  
that's definitely not "small".

> Design-wise:
> - Root view is a contact list.
> - Tapping a contact takes you to a chat with that contact.
> - Three filters (segmented control at the bottom of the CL): Chats  
> Only, Online Contacts, All Contacts.
> - Completely eat any distinction between services. The only  
> exception should be a segmented control (or other UI) at the top of  
> the chat view for switching which service you're chatting with them  
> on.
>
> Future features:
> - In the chat view, allow rotation to landscape. Some people prefer  
> that orientation for typing.

Probably should make the whole application usable from landscape mode  
as well.

>  There won't be room in landscape to show the message view and  
> inputline at the same time,

Not sure that's true. MobileColloquy has room enough.


MobileColloquy seems like a good app to take a look at for ideas in  
many areas. If you don't want to download it, here's a review of it on  
Ars. http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2009/01/20/review-mobile-colloquy-for-iphone-does-irc-right

I'll see about perhaps making some wireframes based on what Peter  
described this weekend.

-Colin