[request] rethink of the chat window

Alexor · Post by **Alexor** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:18 pm

i find the chat window not at my taste
there is plenty of theme on it but it has always the same design.
what i'm looking for is the ability to have a big avatar without it trouble the chat ability and not having a giant window on the screen (the only one i found with a big avatar was uneasy to use)

there should be a various kind of chat windows style

i find the PC MSN 7 chat window quite interresting -> the big avatar on the right which don't trouble the chat itself

the amsn window chat style is quite interresting too

and other request of mine is the hability to have some transparency on the chat window

thx

DJ_FoX_MaC_ClouD · Post by **DJ_FoX_MaC_ClouD** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:36 pm

ils ont deja dit maintes fois que la transparence c'est pas pour panther mais sera peut-etre dans tiger....

Sinon concernant les fenêtres sur le site des X(tras) tu peux trouver des choses qui se rapproche de ce que tu veux mais ce n'est pas dans leurs objectifs de changer la fenetre. 8)

Post by **bgannin** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:19 pm

Window transparency for the message window is not possible at this time. With regards to themes... check (X)tras as done or find someone to make one that meets your particular needs and tastes.

jmelloy · Post by **jmelloy** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:26 am

There's alwasy the icon toolbar button, too. It shows the icon, and when you click it shows it full size

Post by **The_Tick** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:26 am

You can use windowshadex for transparency. With every window in os x.

Giant icons everywhere seem like they would get in the way personally. I dislike the gui of MSN in general and think it should be redone, but eh.

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:55 pm

There are message view styles out there that will show you FULL sized icons, if you want -- search for "MSN" on the XTras site. But given that, we will not be incorporating this as an Adium feature, becuase of the huge interface clutter that it adds.

Alexor · Post by **Alexor** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:53 am

thx for the answers, but the msn window don't satisfy me

i'll wait for news features

jmelloy · Post by **jmelloy** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:03 am

Do you have a screenshot of aMSN or MSN 7?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:06 am

The MSN message styles need work…

But that's my opinion

Is there an MSN SO message style? I want one

Nooon · Post by **Nooon** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:20 am

jmelloy wrote:Do you have a screenshot of aMSN or MSN 7?

SirG3 · Post by **SirG3** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:33 pm

Hm, not sure which is worse -> that or iChat... If it werent for the send button that's about as big as my fist then it'd be pretty decent.

-- SirG3

Post by **bgannin** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:41 pm

Personally I don't understand a lot of the more questionable UI changes and issues but hey, to each their own.

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:33 pm

I REALLY don't like that interface. Everything is unnecessarily large (the metal window, the send button, the drawer...). We're really going for a streamlined interface in Adium, and this isn't it.

Regardless, as I mentioned, there ARE message views that show full-sized user icons, and tooltips also show them (mouse over a person's name on the contact list).

MBHockey · Post by **MBHockey** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:09 am

That is one unnecessarily ginormous Send button.

Alexor · Post by **Alexor** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 3:40 pm

however, the panel with the big avatar is quite interresting

that could be a feature, the panel with big avatar you can show or hide at will

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:38 pm

Alexor wrote:however, the panel with the big avatar is quite interresting

that could be a feature, the panel with big avatar you can show or hide at will

No

dchoby98 · Post by **dchoby98** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:08 am

There IS (in source, I forget if it made it into .7x) a toolbar item for the message window that, when clicked, shows your contact's icon at full size.

tedger · Post by **tedger** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 9:51 am

nope the big icon button isn't in .7x look for it in .8

One of the things I hate about the official clients (besides their general crappyness that is) is all the wasted space. MSN has a similar "send" button. If you're typing (don't know how else you would enter text to the chat window) hitting return is a lot easier then moving your hand to the mouse to press an oversized button. MSN also takes up crazy amounts of space for unnecessary rarely used features, so about only 50% of the actual message window is the messages, which is ridiculous.

The contact lists are worse, they're filled up with more mostly useless rarely used features, and ads. only about 50% of a contact list is actually contacts.

Adium does away with this nonsense. Hopefully the implementation of larger icon viewing in .8 will be more to your liking because I think yet again the slimed down no-nonsense interface of Adium does it again

Ok that's enough of a rant on UI for me, I should have been in bed hours ago.