Hi! > As far as the actual UX, I think the combination of contact search from > the shell Activities view (like Morten Mjelva's SoC idea [4] and the > feature bug I've filed [5]) and a "contact center" like Allan Day/Daniel > Siegel/Salomon Sickert/et al mocked up [6][7] would make our Contacts > support in Gnome 3.2 really nice. While using GNOME 3.0 on my desktop now for a week I wanted to share my thoughs on the UI. The problem in the current situation is that the shell provides a nice chat integration but to start a new chat you have to use the "Contact List" window of empathy which feels totally out-of-place. It is also one of the windows you really don't want to see in the overview. So for 3.2 it would be great to totally replace the "Contact List" window with a "People" (or whatever) tab in Activities. Of course all the libfolks stuff to integrate e-mail contacts and other stuff is a prerequirement here but it would be a good time for the designers now to give a basic idea of the look and feel independant from the backend work. What Daniel and Salamon mocked-up is certainly a nice start but I think a dedicated window for it doesn't fit with the overall shell design well. Regards, Johannes
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