Re: Account Editor

[Timothy B L. <lee...@tc...>]

I'm not a Fire developer so I normally just lurk on this list, but since
you're looking for feedback, my two cents:

Could the fields in the account list be made editable? That is,
double-clicking on a cell in the "Accounts" column would allow you to edit
that field directly in the list view. iTunes and other apps do this, and
I'm pretty sure that it's a standard widget in the IB toolkit.

If so, I think it would be better to have "Display Name" and "Password" as
additional columns in that list view--also editable.

The other fields in that right hand pane seem to be either advanced
options ("Implementation", "Server", and "Port") or unnecessary.
Unless I'm missing something, the "Save password"  checkbox doesn't seem
necessary at all-- if you don't want the password saved, you can just
delete it from the "Password" field. I don't understand what the checkbox
does beyond that.

I'm not sure what "Show Mail Alerts" does, but it could presumably be
either an advanced option or treated like Auto-login, with its own column
as well as a checkbox in the "advanced" panel.

With those changes, the account list could be made the full width of the
control panel, with the button for "Advanced Options"  below the list, and
the stuff on the right-hand pane removed entirely. I think that would be
much cleaner looking and less confusing for non-technical users-- they
could do all of their account management within that main list, with fewer
extraneous options to worry about. Power users could still click the
"advanced" button to see the full menu of options.

Anyway, I'm very greatful for the work y'all do in developing the chat
client I use every day, and I'll be quite happy whatever you decide.

Thanks.

-Tim

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jeremiah Blatz wrote:

> On Mar 1, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Graham Booker wrote:
> > Comments?
>
> Overall, a great improvement!
>
> Some quibbles:
> * What is "Implementation"? That's a very developer-centric term.
> Something else
>    would probably be clearer to end users.
> * I'm guessing that the "Advanced Options" button should have an
> ellipses ("...")
>    after it. It pop up a dialog, right?
> * The "Reset" button looks like it only resets the port. I would
> consider moving it so
>    that it's clear what it applies to
> * The checkbox column for autologin is convenient for expert users, but
> the heading
>    "Aut" is not very clear for new users. I would suggest either messing
> with the
>    headers so that the entire word is visible (is this possible) or
> moving it into the
>    group of checkboxes on the right.
>
>
> Jeremiah
>
>
>
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