Re: [Gaim-devel] Further UI Suggestions

[Richard L. <rl...@wi...>]

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 18:42 -0600, Irving Cordova wrote:
> This is how the user that opened gaim for the first time would look at
> the status box:
> 
> http://img197.imageshack.us/my.php?image=default1mi.gif
> 
> Notice the little arrow next to the status box. It sort of resembles
> the one in the buddy list. It strongly hints that the global status
> can be expanded and it also means that the global status is just an
> alias for a collection of statuses. This one in particular is named
> 'Available'. Also notice the <Type Here> space. By typing in there you
> could change the away message on all enabled accounts.

I'm not exactly sure how you mean one would type into the status box.

> The next screenshot is of a user who has gone away, and has actually
> typed a message to be displayed to her buddies.
> 
> http://tinypic.com/ivwu8n.gif

I really like the idea of showing the message in the second line of the
status selector.

Perhaps we could show the IMHTML for editing and then show the message
in the status selector combo box?

> The last one, is probably the most telling of all:
> 
> http://tinypic.com/ivwug4.gif

This one will also have a problem when the number of accounts goes up.
It'll take up quite a bit of space.

Richard