Re: Interface suggestion

On Feb 16, 2004, at 12:57 AM, Adam D. Blainey wrote:
> Firstly, let me apologize for the reply email with a default subject 
> and the entire last digest in the body. Oops. Anyways, I put together 
> some thought out suggestions on the “adding of multiple users” to the 
> Fire interface. Either, it’s worthy of consideration , or way off the 
> mark.
>
>  Have a boo at:
> http://tinyurl.com/3x53y

Adding an extra column to the Accounts window for status seems like a 
possible way to do things, but I think we  would need more than that to 
really do it right... probably a way of getting a snapshot of the 
current state across all accounts/services and saving that as a custom 
"away item". Of course the next step beyond that would be to allow a 
different profile and different away message on each service, but the 
complexity of dealing with it may be too much.

We've had a lot of interface confusion over the three "modes" that the 
current buddy list has (online/all/edit). For Fire 1.0, we did a lot of 
work to consolidate this into a simple switch between showing online 
buddies and all buddies. I believe that having the Accounts window as a 
toggle in the same window would be problematic.

As to multiple accounts on the same service, we currently handle that 
by just listing all of them in a flat list. I believe that is better 
than having popup menus per service since it allows us to grow into 
multiple simultaneous connections on the same service in the future.

-Jason