So I was reading Torley’s post about bug reporting, following the links and having a grand old time, when I noticed something I’ve never seen before…
Hey, what’s this?!
I quetly thought to myself (and shouted aloud, startling my cat).
After some preliminary investigation (i.e. looking at the picture), I deduced that this is none other than Uiwindowus communicatus, commonly known as the Communicate Window
, in its only known natural habitat: the First Look client.
Many of you probably know that Linux users won’t be chatting it up with voice any time soon. I don’t mind that so much, but I sure hope we get our pengi flippers on this sexay Communicate window! I lurve me some new UI floaters!
July 6th, 2007 at 12:29 am
While I will agree that the new UI window has a great feel to it, it’s main downside is that it takes up a whole hell of a lot of space. Granted it can be sized down, but if you are trying to follow a multi-user convo then it has to be pretty large to be able to read the log well.
July 6th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Argh! Stupid habits. “its main downside”
July 7th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
I so hate the new communicate window. I will miss the separate friends window. I will miss the chat history window. It will take some getting used to - to be mild about it.
July 7th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
@Dolmere: Whoa, you mean Communicate /replaces/ the friends and chat history windows? That’s just criminal! I assumed that it was a new alternative. Is there at least an option to disable it?
July 9th, 2007 at 5:10 am
There’s a tear-off button… you can tear-off individual IMs, or you can tear-off the main chat and make it work like it used to.
Window still far too big tho :)
July 9th, 2007 at 9:52 am
[sexay Communicate window] if you like it, you’ll be the first I’ve heard from personally. I know there’s some cognitive dissonance at work, but even that aside — it’s bulky, oversized and unwieldy for doing things in parallel that were easily done in the current interface.