Harvard Business School of Echec - Tag - UI - Commentaires

redundant UI - Steve

Steve — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:55:23 +0200

This has been the topic of quite some debate, recently! I mentioned it in a blog post (http://www.stevenbrown.ca/blog/arch...) and on the developer's mailing list, and the lead developer just did a post exclusively about the status icon in the tabs.

http://www.pidgin.im/~seanegan/cgi-...

It's getting better.

redundant UI - Craig

Craig — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:53:09 +0200

I found this useless at first, and I admit it does take up some screen real estate, but I use aliases and some people have multiple screennames so I can identify if I'm talking to someone at work or home.

redundant UI - Alexandre Franke

Alexandre Franke — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:23:51 +0200

Maybe you should try using Aliases and Metacontacts, then you would understand the purpose of this

redundant UI - Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:22:55 +0200

I find it quite useful but am surprised this feature is turned on by default without an option to turn it off. The feature is useful when you have several screennames grouped under 1 alias for a person. Under that case, the top name shows the alias, while the bottom one shows the screenname. It's useful in the case, but not in others so they should really have an option to turn it off.

redundant UI - fct

fct — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:35:58 +0200

I wrote a post in ubuntuforums about the new Pidgin:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.ph...

I don't like the way pidgin is "evolving".

redundant UI - iain

iain — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:06:27 +0200

I was thinking the same thing as well.

redundant UI - Jeff Waugh

Jeff Waugh — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:59:49 +0200

Funny, I made a similar screenshot earlier this week too!

http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2007/pid...

redundant UI - Benoît DEJEAN

Benoît DEJEAN — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:17:44 +0200

xchat-gnome merges consecutive messages from the same contact if they are close enough in time. This is a simple but space-saving feature.

redundant UI - boke

boke — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:53:00 +0200

I felt exactly the same when trying it yesterday.

You can turn off the second one in the preferences but then you lose the buddy icon...

redundant UI - tm

tm — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:40:15 +0200

yeah, the new pidging kicks ass in this respect
and quite a lot of green balls also, eh?

redundant UI - mrroboto

mrroboto — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:01:08 +0200

yeah, you're right. that's the first thing i thought using pidgin!