RE: [JDEV] artwork/UI

["Mansell, Brian" <bmansell@spu.edu>]

I think it may create a bog on the bandwidth by keeping icons on the server.
With every 'client update' that will slow it down quite a bit... especially
if jabber ends up becoming highly popular (2000+ simultaneous connections).

brian e. mansell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas D. Charron [mailto:tcharron@my-deja.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 10:41 AM
To: jdev@jabber.org
Subject: Re: [JDEV] artwork/UI


  I DO like the Logo statement, but I think we need to have a working system
that can be used for a minumal depoyment before a logo..

  I would also support the idea of a way to store icons on server, and allow
them to be transfered between clients..  Aka, when I'm in a browser client,
I have the SAME icons, but that capability is a bit of a ways away..
---
Thomas Charron

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:02:44   Sean McCullough wrote:
>How would you feel about using a standard set of icons
>for things like users, groups, IMs across all graphical clients?  I'm
>not suggesting they be required, but it
>would a) make implementing a new client easier and b)
>give Jabber a stronger identity for the non-programmer users.  I know
>it's a client UI implementation issue and therefore out of the scope of
>the Jabber specs but
>like I said, it would just be a set of icons that implementors are free
>to use if they so desire.
>
>I don't know if AIM/YAHOO/ICQ would get their undergarments in a knot
>about Jabber clients ripping
>icons from their clients, but I personally don't think
>those UIs are worth ripping off.  The Jabber team could come up with
>better ones.
>
>Another related issue is a logo.  Gnome = foot, Linux = penguin, BSD =
>devil, Apache = feather - It's not just an issue for commercial
>products to address.  What would a "Jabber Now" link button look like? 
>ICQ's has that flower on it.  I think the other buddy lists have them
>too.
>
>Sorry if the marketing questions make you ill.  Now I need to go write
>some code, repent for my sins.
>
>-Sean McCullough
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