[feature] Hiding the contacts-window, like Mac OS X's dock

keesj · Post by **keesj** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 4:42 pm

Hi,

I think it would be a cool feature if Adium's contact-list would auto-hide when you are not working with it. Like the Dock can. And when you move your mouse to the side of the screen, the list appears above al other applications.

Ofcourse, this feature could be turned off if you like.

Thoughts?

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 6:32 pm

Pretty neat actually...

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 9:04 pm

Some of our community members worked on this very idea, but it isn't working perfectly yet. It may be included in a future release, as we all do like the idea!

keesj · Post by **keesj** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:38 pm

awesome!

Post by **cbarrett** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:30 pm

Wow, I don't remember that, dchoby. Was that in the 1.x days?

Post by **bgannin** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 11:45 pm

Nope, its current. Talk to Tick, he showed me a little while ago and it was 8)

John Don · Post by **John Don** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 4:28 am

That would be a very cool feature indeed

bws950 · Post by **bws950** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:33 pm

Hooray for the devs!

bburky · Post by **bburky** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:49 am

That sounds like a good idea but what happens if some one signs on? How do you know if someone does? Well, you could use Growl. Anyway, you could have the contact's name or their icon bounce, like dock icons do whan an application needs your attention. This would defentaly be a feature that you would want to be able to disable because icons bouncing out of the dock can be annoying. Just an idea.

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:08 am

I expect that, if you are the kind of person who would hide the contact list like this, you don't mind having a little less info about who has signed on or off. However, the dock also can show (briefly) who has signed on or off.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 6:50 am

dchoby98 wrote:I expect that, if you are the kind of person who would hide the contact list like this, you don't mind having a little less info about who has signed on or off. However, the dock also can show (briefly) who has signed on or off.

As can growl... <edit> just noticed that was mentioned </edit>

One thing I intend to look into (take with a huge grain of salt, since that's a big big list) in the future is making a Dashboard widget contact list. That, plus growl to let me know what's happening would be ideal for me.