Re: Chatting on Gnome-shell

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Onyeibo Oku wrote:
> After a chat session with a friend while running Gnome-shell, I decided 
> to illustrate my previous suggestions.  I have attached a screenshot of 
> my chat (with his permission) here:
> http://picturepush.com/public/4899595
> 
> My observations once again:
> 1. Its hard to differentiate between my text and his.
> 2. The gradients behind the text are supposed to fix the problem in #1 
> but they don't do that effectively.  They add to the visual chaos.
> 
> My Suggestion ... see:
> http://picturepush.com/public/4899601
> 1. I think coloured and/or bold text will do it better
> 2. Feature requests:  Add the fading to the top of the text scroll as 
> the text leaves the chat dialogue. Make the Icon more prominent, indent 
> text to the right if necessary, to allow an enhanced icon.  If it sticks 
> out, COOOOOL!.

I think you're on the right lines here. Have you seen the current mockup
[1] for this? It takes a similar approach.

Best,

Allan

[1]
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-design/plain/mockups/static/conversations2.png
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