Hello again, I have not left yet, and I can't prevent myself from brainstorming about GM... We have discussed a while ago to have the possibility to switch GM between 3 different modes : -1- Compact Softphone : display the dialpad only, during calls text chat and video window are shown if needed -2- Deployed : Everything visible -3- Classic : only the video window and the control panel shown That would lead me to remove the : - View statusbar - View text chat - Control Panel -> Off options. That leads to a few problems : - with Compact mode, how can the user show the text chat window if he wants to send a message to the remote user? - with Compact mode, what happens if he clicks on the preview button? - With Compact mode, should we show the dialpad only or should we show the control panel with the dialpad as default? It seems to me that the definition of "modes" leads to an incompatibility with the current GUI resulting in the fact that we are perhaps forced to keep the current "View" menu items. That makes things incompatible with the mode definition. I see 3 other possibilities : -1- forget the idea of modes and add a "View video window" option to hide the video part of the GUI by default. That's only a small evolution from the current GUI. -2- switch to the modes described above, and put the problematic text chat in a separate window like the prefs, the calls history, the history and the address book. That would make GM smaller. GM would then contain only the control panel and the video window. I don't see the interest of having modes in such a situation actually as only 2 things are hideable: the video part and the control panel. -3- Have another approach: switch to a pure softphone mode where the main GnomeMeeting window would not display video at all. The main GnomeMeeting window would see its current video window replaced by the dialpad. Below the dialpad, there would be the current control panel. When you are connected to an user, a second window would appear. That second window would contain the video of the remote user (possibly with Picture-in-picture) embedded in the text chat window, a bit like what IM's are currently doing. The problem with what to do when somebody clicks on the tray icon : show/hide GM + all the chat windows? That's also going against the old approach where GM should present all useful windows integrated together. Please discuss that together and post me a summary for when I come back. We will then do a poll on the users mailing list to see what they do prefer. I don't have a solution I like yet. So it can be postponed until 2.00. -- _ Damien Sandras (o- GnomeMeeting: http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ //\ FOSDEM : http://www.fosdem.org v_/_ H.323 phone : callto:ils.seconix.com/dsandras seconix com
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