Re: Question about change to Buddy List

On Jun 4, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Graham Booker wrote:
> I am posting this to fire-dev instead of just to the core group 
> because I want greater discussion on it.
>
> I have been in the process of redoing a bit of the buddy list.  
> Visually, much of it is the same, but it has more capabilities (such 
> as displaying the start of the status message within the buddy list if 
> you like).  Anyway, in this process, I found that designing in the 
> window's toolbar cannot be done in a very elegant manner within the 
> new architecture.  I then looked at the contents of this toolbar, and 
> noticed that everything within the toolbar also exists within the 
> Buddies menu and the Status Menu.  I also have not used the toolbar in 
> well over a year myself, so here is my question:
>
> How do you feel about eliminating the toolbar entirely from the 
> Buddies window?

I still use the toolbar. Could you explain why it is difficult to 
maintain the toolbar with the new code? All the relevant methods are in 
the BuddyController other than the status menu (which is in 
AwayController) as I recall.

-Jason



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