0.8 loses connect menu!

DanIngold · Post by **DanIngold** » Fri May 06, 2005 3:08 pm

The new version is very nice, but has lost the "Connect..." menu items. This is inconvenient if one has a flaky connection. (For example, I use an ssh-tunnelled connection that occasionally drops due to proxy server problems.)

In the older version, after restoring the tunnel I recovered Adium simply by typing command-option-K. Now, one must go through "Preferences...," or quit and restart Adium. So, I for one would like to see the "Connect..." menu item reappear. Thanks!

--Dan

Son of a Preacher Man · Fri May 06, 2005 3:11 pm

No, you just have to go to the Status menu.

You can always add a hotkey in System Preferences.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Sat May 07, 2005 12:20 am

Son of a Preacher Man wrote:No, you just have to go to the Status menu.

You can always add a hotkey in System Preferences.

Connect would be Available and Offline.

Post by **jstamos** » Sat May 07, 2005 12:27 am

Actually in .81 it's in the File Menu, and it's sitting there waiting for you just like before.

Goatbert · Post by **Goatbert** » Sat May 07, 2005 1:29 am

jstamos wrote:Actually in .81 it's in the File Menu, and it's sitting there waiting for you just like before.

It still is not entirely back. In the previous version (.77 I think?) you could do your disconnecting from the context menu when right clicking on the Dock icon, and you had the option to disconnect all accounts from both the dock context menu and the file menu. Now I have to either quick Adium or manually disconnect from each service if I want to disconnect.

Any chance the full disconnect/connect functionality on both the dock and the file menu could return in .82?

Thanks,
-Jeff

Perez · Post by **Perez** » Sat May 07, 2005 2:57 am

Son of a Preacher Man wrote:You can always add a hotkey in System Preferences.

Actually, can you? Last I tried, the little icon (I susupect) prevented me from making a hot-key for it. I'd like to have a connect-my-preferred-account key combo.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:36 am

jstamos wrote:Actually in .81 it's in the File Menu, and it's sitting there waiting for you just like before.

Which, in my opinion, is breaking the mental model of "connected and disconnected are statuses like any other"... but oh well, sometimes "ui concept purity" loses out to other things (which is why testing is such a good thing)...

Post by **evands** » Sat May 07, 2005 8:03 pm

Catfish_Man wrote:
jstamos wrote:Actually in .81 it's in the File Menu, and it's sitting there waiting for you just like before.
Which, in my opinion, is breaking the mental model of "connected and disconnected are statuses like any other"... but oh well, sometimes "ui concept purity" loses out to other things (which is why testing is such a good thing)...

Yeah, I agree with you... but I also made the change. Here's why, in order of priority:
1) The "actions" for connected accounts were being stuck in a submenu off the account's name in the status menu. Going Status->Account->Actions->Change Password, for example, is a ridiculous series of changes to make that no sane user would expect.
2) There seemed to be a large amount of confusion with people thinking they had to navigate into the account submenu and select Available for the account to connect. The file menu items get the action words suggested by the HIG and also provide consistency for IM users expecting "connect/disconnect" to be a different thing than a change of status... which we wanted to encourage as a way of thinking, and which is still possible from the status menu.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Sat May 07, 2005 11:19 pm

Agreed. Heck, I may end up using them myself.