Hi
this is a design prototype for 2.6.0 final. The focus is a light weight evolution of 2.5.8 look n feel.
The button and tab of 2.5.8 move to the Action Menue.
The Tab pane for Contacts/Conferences will disapear by default There will be an option to show conferences and transports in a tab pane.
The transports move below the presence as they provide the logon status and hence the presence in the public networks.
Feedback is welcome
I don’t really like the color (too bright for my taste), but i can bare it. But those buttons, especially the red close button. I do like, that you have removed those buttons i never use.
Btw, in your screenshot Bookmarks are also before the Actions menu. Is it intended?
The placing of Bookmark and Actions is not defined. Waht would be a reasoning to do it one way or the other
Spark Contacts Bookmark Actions Help
or
Spark Contacts Actions Bookmark Help
looks pretty much the same for me
Coming from the older versions most users will be used to have Actions menu before the bookmarks. Not a big deal, of course. I use my bookmarks rarely and i use broadcasting option quite often.
In the recent builds Spark’s systray icon looks worse comparing to taskbar window icon or shortcut icon. Red sparkle inside the yellow one has jagged edges.
With the given statment above (trying to make it look like 2.5.8) it looks good to me. I still don’t like the colapisble window starting with the same color as the background and ending with white. I would either reverse this (start with white and end with the background color) or preferably start with a slightly darker color and end with the same color as the background to give a little more feeling of seperation to the colapisble menus. I will admit, I don’t remember if this was in 2.5.8 or not.
An enhancment might be to just add this as an option in the default.prefs and Appearance/Colors menu.
In the latest version, after buttons removal, bookmarks are now showing as the last menu.
