[Psi-devel] Re: Usability.

[Mircea Bardac (IceRAM)]

On Monday - 14 February 2005 00:10, Hal Rottenberg wrote:
> > > Yes. For example setting: "i'm a busy man" and just use "away" "online"
> > > "dnd" without even thinking about status message.
> >
> > Psi displays the last status message when changing the status. You only
> > have to confirm it and you're done. No need to enter or recall it every
> > time.
> >
> > If you don't want to confirm the message at all, you'd need to have two
> > separate sets of status change buttons: with and without a message. This
> > bloats things up. Or is there a way to do this? And I don't mean using
> > Shift+Click to select a message, people won't find that hidden option.
>
> Yeah, I understand what David means and can see why a lot of people
> would want it.  Some people don't care so much about status messages.
> They will *always* want one of a small set of status messages, and do
> not want to be prompted at all when changing status.  It would be a
> fairly drastic change to the way that Psi behaves now.  I'm not saying
> it would be bad, just big.

I actually see this as a copy of the current Notification Toolbar, containing 
a growing-multi-line edit field, just like in the ChatDlg, maybe with a 
smaller font. People can turn the "toolbar" on (off by default) if they want 
to.

Mircea


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