Dear OneTeam private alpha users,

This is the OneTeam developers team for another round of feedback!

Now it is the time to talk about user experience - please write what you think of OneTeam as a comment to this post.

Please comment about the things regarding user experience:
* is OneTeam disruptive in some ways?
* is the color palette OK, and does it look good on your computer?
* does some featres require clicking a lot?
* do you think something might look or work simpler?

Once again, OneTeam is an alpha quality period, so you will encounter issues. Please report them, we would to fix them all! ;-)

Since we have no reply, I’ll start the thread:

What I like most:
* the contact list, because you can see many of you contacts in one eye shot, and scroll fast
* the search box, because it enable you to have your contact much faster than just by scrolling and searching with the eyes
* the threading in chatrooms, although it needs some refinements… have you seen/tried it?

What I dislike most:
* the handling of the chat window on Mac OS X, because you only can switch form app to app, and not from window to window
* there is no killer history management yet, but we have neat ideas about how to handle that

What is your take?

I dislike:
* when you receive a message, the tab is highlighted in red, but you need to clic on the discussion and not just switch to the tab to stop the highlight…
* there is not difference between the background header of a discussion (contact name, avatar…) and the background of the discussion almost when it’s empty
* there is not a direct menu to go on the chatrooms (need to use Action > Join Chat Room > [the room]
* can’t switch tabs under Linux (bug?)

I like:
* the highlight of unreaded posts
* the contact-list and the making in grey of the offline contacts
* calling contacts

Thomas Baquet - 30 March 2010 05:00 PM

I dislike:
* there is not difference between the background header of a discussion (contact name, avatar…) and the background of the discussion almost when it’s empty

Do you mean that when you open a chat with someone there’s already avatar and name on top, even though there is no chat messages?

yep.
Else, why not edit pseudo by clicking on it in the main window?

One other thing wich could be interesting is switch to the discussion by clicking on the notification popup

I like:
- the way requests are handled (subscription, file transfert requests)
- the roster layout

What I’d like to have :
- email-like message handling (messages != IM) for example in a separate tab in the main window
- grey theme (looks like Win95), I would prefer something lighter (CSS3 ivory for example)
- file sharing in MUC, ie a mechanism to store and retrieve files in a chatroom (harder since it requires both server side and client side support)
- mood and nickname support

- email-like message handling (messages != IM) for example in a separate tab in the main window

For now, we will treat messages of type normal like chat. I wonder how much they a really used, and if they need a real different UI.

- grey theme (looks like Win95), I would prefer something lighter (CSS3 ivory for example)

For now, we wil stick to that design. Maybe in the future, we will adopt the Adium-like chat themes, but this much work I believe.

- file sharing in MUC, ie a mechanism to store and retrieve files in a chatroom (harder since it requires both server side and client side support)

This is technically possible now with the existing XEPs, if the real users JIDs are exposed. A pure MUC fril transfer does not exist yet. I believe it would be very useful for online meeting though. Have you got a idea of how this could be done? Should we work on a specific XEP?

- mood and nickname support

We can do that pretty quickly, but how much is that useful? I mean _really_ useful? ;-)

Tangui - 09 April 2010 08:27 PM

- grey theme (looks like Win95), I would prefer something lighter (CSS3 ivory for example)

I search for it but got inconclusive results. Could you point me to this theme you are referring to ? Thanks!

Nicolas Vérité - 12 April 2010 10:53 AM

- email-like message handling (messages != IM) for example in a separate tab in the main window

For now, we will treat messages of type normal like chat. I wonder how much they a really used, and if they need a real different UI.

The email is broken : 95% of them are spam. XMPP makes it harder, since it is Jabber is an authenticated network. Could XMPP messages replace emails in the long term ? This is the question I ask myself. People use more and more social networks to communicate (Facebook, etc). This would be quite easy to do, thanks to the thread element of <message type=“normal”...>

Nicolas Vérité - 12 April 2010 10:53 AM

- file sharing in MUC, ie a mechanism to store and retrieve files in a chatroom (harder since it requires both server side and client side support)

This is technically possible now with the existing XEPs, if the real users JIDs are exposed. A pure MUC fril transfer does not exist yet. I believe it would be very useful for online meeting though. Have you got a idea of how this could be done? Should we work on a specific XEP?

No idea, I guess that would require a new XEP. This also could a good start for shared document editing into a MUC.

Nicolas Vérité - 12 April 2010 10:53 AM

- mood and nickname support
We can do that pretty quickly, but how much is that useful? I mean _really_ useful? ;-)

Indeed ! It seems that OneTeam is a business productivity software. This could also become a general-public software, but I guess you don’t matter for the moment :)

I’m using OneTeam (0.9.1319) on Mac (OSX 10.6.3) .  Not sure if I’ve just missed something but I’d like to have the choice to list my contacts in a list rather than as separate icons - it actually looks to me like the Preferences > General > “Display Avatars in roster” option is being ignored. 

Would like to be able to support more than one XMPP account in the client - again I feel as though I may be missing something but it doesn’t look like that’s currently possible. 

Do like it though, looking forward to the next iteration.

Should be interseting to have options for a contact when you click on his conversation tab

Thomas Baquet - 15 April 2010 10:31 AM

Should be interseting to have options for a contact when you click on his conversation tab

what kind of options would you like to have ?

per example, remove the contact, change his nickname in the roster, see his vcard, for the muc, an option for enabling/disabling autjoin…

There is already all that… No?

Not on the tabs in the chat window

Thomas Baquet - 16 April 2010 04:57 PM

Not on the tabs in the chat window

You can rightclick on the user info area with avatar and nick below the tab.