Re: ChatWindow Toolbar Items

Sounds a lot like some Trillian skins, and it could be useful.

The top toolbar can get very cramped very easily, and this would be a 
good way to offload some of the things that are in the top tab. On the 
other hand, every single option you mentioned (except for insert 
hyperlink) is already available from the menu bar. As a result, I keep 
only those buttons that I frequently access on the chat window's 
toolbar, and the other ones I access via key command or the menu.

I would start by making sure that the toolbar isn't NECESSARY for 
anything, but is a quick access location for frequently used commands. 
(For both the chat window and other windows.) From there, modifications 
to the layout become far less stressful, since there are always options.

I'd also hate to lose the customizability of the toolbar -- I like a 
simple chat window and would want the option to disable any or all of 
those buttons at the bottom of the chat window.

On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 12:43  PM, Graham Booker wrote:

> In my excursion into modifying the chat windows, it occurred to me 
> that I may want to change some of the UI as well.  I noticed that the 
> toolbar seemed to become a catch-all for many things.  Basically, 
> unless anyone has some serious objections, I would like to move the 
> following items out of the toolbar and into the right side of the 
> status text area (bottom of the chat window).
>
> Foreground text color
> Background text color
> Send Message
> Emoticon Menu (assuming I can get a menu working there)
> Fonts
> and maybe add in an insert hyperlink button.
>
> These icon would be quite small, and only occupy a little bit of the 
> status message text.  This would not increase the size of the 
> chatwindows.  Think of it as being placed in a row just to the left of 
> the grow box.



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