[REQ] Horizontal contact lists

class07 · Post by **class07** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:10 am

I just thought it would be cool if instead of having a vertical list you could have them like horizontally across the bottom. Or if you could but the groups next to each other instead of above and below eachother.

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:16 am

Not going to happen. Sorry.

Newtylicious · Post by **Newtylicious** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:20 am

First of all, someone already did this. The main issue is that it's hard to present a fair amount of buddies horizontally. It seems sort of like a waste of space to me, you'd have to have different rows, and hard to separate groups.

Works perfect for people with few friends like you

class07 · Post by **class07** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:29 am

Newtylicious wrote:Works perfect for people with few friends like you

Man this guy has me down to a science

Sounds good just thought I would ask.

Post by **evands** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:38 am

Newtylicious wrote:First of all, someone already did this. The main issue is that it's hard to present a fair amount of buddies horizontally. It seems sort of like a waste of space to me, you'd have to have different rows, and hard to separate groups.

Works perfect for people with few friends like you

really, someone did it? Where?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:43 am

I remember someone in the Screenshots topic photoshopped one

air__devil · Post by **air__devil** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:23 am

The fake one is here:
http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic. ... &start=600

sdh admitted to having pulled a hoax on all of us. Here's his doctored desktop:
http://img194.exs.cx/img194/2294/screenshot27ye.jpg

Still pretty badass anyways.

sdh · Post by **sdh** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:21 am

haha

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:28 pm

Actually, that does look neat.

jmelloy · Post by **jmelloy** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:35 pm

Agreed. We should add an option to remove the names from the contact list for the truly minimalists.

Melroch · Post by **Melroch** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:42 pm

jmelloy wrote:Agreed. We should add an option to remove the names from the contact list for the truly minimalists.

Do you mean names as in your buddies user names? Because you can already do that with icon only setting. If you mean group names, then yes--that would be cool. It would be even more like iChat's buddy list.

jmelloy · Post by **jmelloy** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:44 pm

I didn't realize we had an icon-only mode.

Also, you can remove groups in .80.

goinup · Post by **goinup** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 7:54 pm

what i think would be cool is to be able to move groups around independently. maybe a sticky effect when they are close together they snap in place but maybe option drag a group or something would let me put group a on one side of my desktop and group b on the other..

Post by **evands** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:37 pm

Melroch wrote:
jmelloy wrote:Agreed. We should add an option to remove the names from the contact list for the truly minimalists.
Do you mean names as in your buddies user names? Because you can already do that with icon only setting. If you mean group names, then yes--that would be cool. It would be even more like iChat's buddy list.

Where's the icon only setting?

And group names can be hidden in 0.80 -- view->hide group names

Melroch · Post by **Melroch** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:11 pm

evands wrote:
Melroch wrote:
jmelloy wrote:Agreed. We should add an option to remove the names from the contact list for the truly minimalists.
Do you mean names as in your buddies user names? Because you can already do that with icon only setting. If you mean group names, then yes--that would be cool. It would be even more like iChat's buddy list.
Where's the icon only setting?

And group names can be hidden in 0.80 -- view->hide group names

You know.. I don't remember now how I got mine to do icon only... maybe it was a random extra I downloaded and installed. Hmm... I'll find it when I get back from dinner.

NebuchadnezzaR · Post by **NebuchadnezzaR** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:14 pm

You can make the list so small, that only the icons are shown.

Melroch · Post by **Melroch** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:01 pm

yahoo! I found it.. I knew I saw it somewhere.

Here's the link to download it if you want the choice to only see icons.

class07 · Post by **class07** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 3:13 am

goinup wrote:what i think would be cool is to be able to move groups around independently. maybe a sticky effect when they are close together they snap in place but maybe option drag a group or something would let me put group a on one side of my desktop and group b on the other..

This is pretty much what I meant from the beginning would there be any way of getting this to work or just being able to make multiple buddy lists.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:20 pm

I know this is an old thread, and people might not want it bumped up, but I really want to say that I'd love this feature!
That's all

Post by **The_Tick** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:22 pm

Joe wrote:I know this is an old thread, and people might not want it bumped up, but I really want to say that I'd love this feature!
That's all

Do not do this. Trac is where you request features.