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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: Kopete hacking
From:       dantti85-dev () yahoo ! com ! br
Date:       2010-07-22 13:53:05
Message-ID: 939353.60680.qm () web114220 ! mail ! gq1 ! yahoo ! com
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> De: Markus Slopianka <markus.s@kdemail.net>
> IMO some of your ideas (eg. transparent contact list) are actually not well 
> suited for standard Kopete, but instead for a Plasmoid that lives in 
> vertical Plasma panel. You can -- kind of -- already get a similar result 
> by dropping Lancelot's contacts component into a vertical Plasma panel. I 
> used that setup in the past, but over time the Lancelot component got worse 
> and worse to use stand-alone in a panel.


I was sure not everyone would like the tabbed contact list.
I never tried the lancelot component (since I don't like lancelot),
but I must say most users (dummy ones) don't know how to play with
plasmoids, and I if you look at Adium (Mac OS IM) it can have
a transparent UI which people just love it.
> IMO the worst part of Kopete 
> usability-wise is the way accounts are set up. Even I (an avid user) find it 
> confusing. For starters, the WinPopup and Testbed protocolls should be 
> completely deleted to reduce clutter. I find most of Kopete actually quite 
> good to 
> use.


I totally agree with you, but even with my accounts setup I still get up set
when simple things like droping a file on a contact list does not work
or when i have to go to various menus which have the same information
to find the right option to do one thing. :P

My idea of account set up is open a new left tab hide the contact list
and show a ui like the aMSN or ms msn. That is really simple
and a nice scroll wit the protocols saying for example that jabber is the
one for gtalk...


best


      

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