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The drag-and-drop file sharing, with inline preview, is pretty amazing. I wish Adium had that. I really dislike the rest of the UI though. One very important t
by potatolicious 14y ago
The drag-and-drop file sharing, with inline preview, is pretty amazing. I wish Adium had that.
I really dislike the rest of the UI though. One very important thing about Adium is how compact it is. Even on relatively small laptop screens you can just leave it in a corner, which makes it easy to hold conversations without having to break context.
The conversation list, and the conversation views themselves, feel very much like the much-maligned "gigantor" Skype update from a while back. Everything feels much too big, much too spaced out, for a pure utility app. IM isn't an "experience" app, it's about as utilitarian as computer use gets.
The "smart command line" thing is very cool though.
- mimiflynn 14y agoThe compactness of Adium is key. I always set it up to have my friend list as a translucent border free floating window to where it is unobtrusively sticking to the top right hand corner of my screen. I enjoy only seeing tabs of people I am currently chatting with; the list to the left on these screens is too bulky.
- baby 14y ago> The conversation list, and the conversation views themselves, feel very much like the much-maligned "gigantor" Skype update from a while back. mixed with facebook message since you can view a preview of the messages as well. I think this is how Skype should have done it.
- ChiperSoft 14y agoExactly, this doesn't look like Adium, it looks like a flat version if Apple Messages.