[OTR-users] OTR conversation window menu

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:07:38AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2008-11-26 09:10:30 -0500, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 
> > That's correct.  The new (well, not so new any more) version of
> > Pidgin allows you to have multiple conversations going on at the
> > same time in the same tab.  If you do that, you need a way to tell
> > which ones are private and which aren't.  In that case, you'd see a
> > single OTR menu (with the currently active conversation in it), and
> > one little icon for each conversation, with the inactive ones
> > lowlighted.
> 
> This is pretty confusing UI for the single-conversation window case,
> though.  Perhaps that (common) case could be handled differently?

In this common case, you effectively have a single menu, headed by
"OTR [icon]".  Only part of the header gets highlighed when you pull it
down, but that hardly seems worth changing if it causes inconsistency
with the next common case, no?

   - Ian