Re: Musings on the contacts user experience

["Johannes Schmid" <jhs jsschmid de>]

Hi!

>  * Contacts search (but no contacts tab) in the shell overview, which
> will provide a quick way to initiate conversations.
>

While I see the point of not having another "tab" I still think the shell
integration of IM currently suffers from the fact that empathy still needs
to be around and displays it's contact list. And I currently see no better
way to resolve this than to have some kind of "Contact list" embedded into
the shell that displays all online contacts without the need to search for
them. People often have weird nicknames anyway, that I don't remember but
which I can recognize when I see them in a list and searching is not
particularly helpful here.

This is related but not quite the same as contact management for the whole
desktop.

Regards,
Johannes