Adium

Ticket #896 (reopened enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Status "Group" in borderless or bubble style contact list

Reported by: anonymous Assigned to: nobody
Priority: lowest Milestone: Good idea for "later"
Component: Adium UI Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Patch: None
Pending:

Description

I think a useful feature, if possible, would be to have a new "group" show up at the top of the contact list to reflect a satus change to away or idle instead of having the floating window when using a borderless or bubble style contact list. It is something that would clean up some desktop clutter while still allowing users to see their own status changes much like they can in a normal window style contact list.

Attachments

mockukp.jpg (52.2 kB) - added by thesilverfox06 on 02/23/2006 01:56:08 PM.
My crappy mockup
mockup_icon.png (65.2 kB) - added by tanguycc on 08/14/2007 11:44:48 AM.
mockup with avatar and name

Change History

07/13/2005 12:58:44 AM changed by tedger

You are going to have to be a lot more clear about what you mean, perhaps provide some screenshots.

07/13/2005 03:20:30 PM changed by anonymous

I don't know how I would create a screenshot, but it would be something along the lines of having another bubble appear when you change your status from active to away or idle. That way, you would not have the floating window that shows your status, and it would instead be incorporated into the contact list. Think of the status dropdown that is in a normal window, but make something similar to it in a borderless or bubble style window.

If that's not very clear, I'm sorry I don't know how else to describe what I'm envisioning.

07/19/2005 03:32:16 PM changed by adamiser

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

We have no plans for status display on non-standard lists.

11/30/2005 12:54:48 AM changed by peelman [at] gmail [dot] com

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

But why not?

Maybe he was unclear...

If you choose "regular Window" as your Window Style in the Appereances Preferences, you get a drop down menu at the top of the window that lets you set your status from your contact list, as well as see your status instantly. I would much rather have my stati listed there, rather than in the Status menu bar item, as that can get rather large...

Regardless, if you don't use "regular Window" you don't get this.

I don't understand the limitations surrounding this. Adium does some kick ass stuff, i can't see this being some huge technological hurdle that should just be cast aside. I use Adium because its better than iChat and breaks some of the limitations that iChat has, and i put up with the stuff that iChat can do that Adium can't. Here's one more little thing.

11/30/2005 12:56:23 AM changed by anonymous

That it can do better than iChat (completing that thought above...got sidetracked and thought i was done with it...

11/30/2005 01:27:58 AM changed by evands

Nobody on the Adium team has been able to come up with a good, attractive way to include status in the contact list for non-"regular window" styles in way that would be pleasing for most users who use those styles.

We welcome mock-ups for implementations of any features users desire... it makes it a lot easier to discuss their possible implementation. Feel free to submit a mock-up of how you propse this particular enhancement.

11/30/2005 02:16:56 AM changed by catfish_man

  • milestone set to Adium X 1.0.
  • field_haspatch changed.

Milestone -> 1.0, because #1446 was set to 1.0, and it's a dupe of this.

12/22/2005 02:26:03 AM changed by evands

  • milestone deleted.

Interesting request... I'm not sure how I feel about it without seeing a mockup, but we're not blocking 1.0 on it for sure.

02/23/2006 01:56:08 PM changed by thesilverfox06

  • attachment mockukp.jpg added.

My crappy mockup

02/23/2006 01:56:30 PM changed by thsilverfox06

This is something that I would be interested in seeing as well. I'm not very good with mockups, but I did some photoshopping to give a rough Idea of what I had in mind.

04/26/2007 03:08:50 PM changed by jas8522

  • priority changed from normal to lowest.
  • patch_status set to None.
  • milestone set to Good idea for "later".

Setting to good idea for later, although this can obviously just be done through the status menu, so I can't see this being a huge priority...

08/14/2007 11:43:41 AM changed by tanguycc

I am also interrested by that feature so i made another mockup: I added the name & icon to the status.

08/14/2007 11:44:48 AM changed by tanguycc

  • attachment mockup_icon.png added.

mockup with avatar and name

05/15/2008 08:38:24 AM changed by djmori