A Proposal for Adium Next: The Main Window

[David Smith]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adium.im> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2011, at 14:23:59, George Lambrou wrote:
>> Anyways, without further ado, I would like to present to you the sum of four months of work, and the first step down a new road for Adium: the Main Window of Adium Next.
>>
>> <Adium Next - Message Window.pdf>
>
> Some of you may know that I am generally against sidebars. I think they are overdone, and most often a sign of lazy UI design: nobody bothered to try to think of anything else. You have an even steeper uphill battle with me when proposing to replace an existing working design with a sidebar-based design, like Skype did.
>
> I think this one works.
>

It's pretty, certainly, but I still thing single-window mode is a
fundamentally misguided design for Adium's primary UI. It takes up
more space, in exchange for... what exactly?

What I think this proposal DOES make sense for is a Lion full screen
mode for Adium.

    David