Re: Interface suggestion

Hi All

I was thinkin about the best way to set up an interface for changing 
the away state of a service.  I was thinking along the lines of 
"Address Book" and "iCal".  For example... in address book if you want 
to send a txt message you mouse over the word "mobile" and it 
highlights the telephone number and then when you click it shows the 
pop up menu.

This is a clean and low impact solution. the buddy list would look 
exactly the same with the exception that when you mouse over the word 
"online" in the status column of an account it would behave in a 
similar fashion to address book as explained above.

Am not a hands on guy so am no good a graphic mock-ups or programming 
but i hope you get the idea.

Just my thoughts

John

On 22 Feb 2004, at 05:04, Jason Townsend wrote:

> 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
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