Overhaul of Accounts

[Chris Forsythe]

On Aug 12, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Matthew <mneedham at ei8ht.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 13:23, Chris Forsythe <chris at growl.info> wrote:
> 
>> Plus if my account name is long and there are 5 similarly named accounts, then how do I know which is which except by clicking on them?
> 
> Adium truncates long names now, so the smaller in the space would only
> make an uncommon problem somewhat more common (though perhaps still
> uncommon). Considering that selecting the account displays the name in
> a larger space and that you have to select an account to do anything,
> this doesn't seem like a problem to me.
> 
> If you have 5 similarly long-named accounts, you need to get more
> creative or more succinct in your account naming.
> 

I'm sure others who try to use the same username on forums/email/irc probably be less than thrilled with this suggestion as a solution. 

It is an issue that should be discussed is all I'm pointing out. I don't know that tooltips is that awesome of a solution, but it is a solution. 



> And why would you need to edit them often enough for this to be a
> problem? Anything that a normal user needs to edit with any regularity
> should probably be exposed somewhere else.
> 
> 

Because cmd+, is easier to me than clicking on File to enable and disable accounts. 

Chris

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> Matthew
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