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Bug 711667 - Design suggestion: inline blocks instead of line blocks for wide windows
Design suggestion: inline blocks instead of line blocks for wide windows
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Contact List
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-11-08 11:16 UTC by Hugo Roy
Modified: 2018-05-22 16:22 UTC
See Also:
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Description Hugo Roy 2013-11-08 11:16:15 UTC 
Described here with screenshots: http://hroy.eu/posts/gnome-empathy-design/#asuggestionforrealimprovement

With the recent design changes introduced with version 3.6 the contact list displays even less connected people than before, hence making it less useful to see at a glance who's online.

When the contact list window is expanded (suggesting that the user wants to see *more* contacts) however, there's no change in how the the list displays, resulting in a lot of useless and ugly whitespace.

Something like a grid of connected contacts for empathy would be very useful, a bit like Moblin did in 2009: http://hroy.eu/posts/gnome-empathy-design/666x391-moblin_people.png
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 16:22:26 UTC 
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