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09-18-2008

Blank space is one of those UI tricks that makes things look more "clean". My guess is
they'll pull back a little in the final final look.

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Jonathan Kay
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"aL3891" <aL3891@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> totaly agree on the ui.. the weird thing is that its such an obvous mistake
> to make... did the messenger team actually belive that those blank spaces
> where appealing? it they seem more like mistakes by a person who doesnt
> really understand window layout controls and that makes me worried about
> messenger..
>
> "ups" wrote:
>

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>> My first impression on WLM Beta is fairly positive still I would like to give
>> one quick suggestion.
>>
>> There is too much blank space.
>> In the contact list window:
>> Around the Display Picture and all around the header there is too much
>> wasted space. Heck! There is too much space around everything. The pub on
>> the bottoms is a nice example as is the size minimum size of each entry in
>> the contact list. Think of small notebooks with that not much of space in the
>> vertical axis.
>>
>> In the conversation window:
>> There is too much space in the Display Picture area. I use a small screen
>> and most of my window is just blank!
>> I suggest to move the arrow down icon next to the display picture and merge
>> it functionalities to the menu obtained when the display picture is clicked.
>> The webcam icon could then be relocated to somewhere that does not occupy 1
>> cm-wide stripe from top to bottom in the window.
>>
>> Now a couple of suggestions
>> Add pption to remove groups like the one with favorites
>> Move the progress bar of transfer files to outside the conversation log. A
>> possible place is the obvious sea of white space between display pictures.
>> Its a pain to have to scroll the message log to see how the transfer is going.
>> A long asked feature... resume file sending.
>> Option to automatically place the received files in folders with the email
>> address of the sender.
>>
>> I'll investigate/test further and then post it here again.
>>
>> Keep up the great work.

09-18-2008	#8 (permalink)
Jonathan Kay [MVP] n/a posts	Re: Windows Live Messenger Beta First Impressions Blank space is one of those UI tricks that makes things look more "clean". My guess is they'll pull back a little in the final final look. -- Jonathan Kay Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com (c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation -- "aL3891" <aL3891@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:1D717086-124A-4339-A39E-007A81EC236A@xxxxxx Quote: > totaly agree on the ui.. the weird thing is that its such an obvous mistake > to make... did the messenger team actually belive that those blank spaces > where appealing? it they seem more like mistakes by a person who doesnt > really understand window layout controls and that makes me worried about > messenger.. > > "ups" wrote: > Quote: >> My first impression on WLM Beta is fairly positive still I would like to give >> one quick suggestion. >> >> There is too much blank space. >> In the contact list window: >> Around the Display Picture and all around the header there is too much >> wasted space. Heck! There is too much space around everything. The pub on >> the bottoms is a nice example as is the size minimum size of each entry in >> the contact list. Think of small notebooks with that not much of space in the >> vertical axis. >> >> In the conversation window: >> There is too much space in the Display Picture area. I use a small screen >> and most of my window is just blank! >> I suggest to move the arrow down icon next to the display picture and merge >> it functionalities to the menu obtained when the display picture is clicked. >> The webcam icon could then be relocated to somewhere that does not occupy 1 >> cm-wide stripe from top to bottom in the window. >> >> Now a couple of suggestions >> Add pption to remove groups like the one with favorites >> Move the progress bar of transfer files to outside the conversation log. A >> possible place is the obvious sea of white space between display pictures. >> Its a pain to have to scroll the message log to see how the transfer is going. >> A long asked feature... resume file sending. >> Option to automatically place the received files in folders with the email >> address of the sender. >> >> I'll investigate/test further and then post it here again. >> >> Keep up the great work.
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