[OTR-dev] Pidgin plugin development and GUI look

[Ian Goldberg]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:34:18PM +0200, hcat at gmx.net wrote:
> > A friend of mine experimented with just this, and the result was pretty
> > good.
> > He wrote a blog-post about it ( 
> > http://blog.pesa.se/2007/09/25/goodbye-big-bloated-otr-button/ )
> 
> I really like that, even better to put it aligned to the right edge of
> the toolbar instead of as the next "button" on the toolbar. I also
> feel that having the colored text works very well and is a lot better
> than even the nicer icons we have right now.

One of the issues identified in the user study is that people couldn't
figure out how to get to the "Authenticate buddy" menu item.  With the
button, you needed to right-click on the button to bring up the context
menu, which stymied a number of people.  They suggested to move it to a
menu (for which (left-)clicking is the obvious way to pull down a menu),
so that's what we did.

We'd also have to think about how to handle the
multiple-conversations-in-one-window case.

   - Ian