Tox for OS X: Looking for volunteers.

Hello everyone,

As we talk earlier on IRC, lot of clients (active and unmaintened) are not optimized for Yosemite (or even Mavericks) and as I believe in Tox I started the redesign of the OS X app.

The preview has been attached, feel free to suggest or criticize the design so I can fix it.

While I finish the design (video chat, call chat, settings, profile and eventually a lock screen). Is there somebody would volunteer to develop the application ? The app should be in Objective C to get all UI features and run smoothly.

Cheers !

[Jookia]

I feel that the chat bubble placement should be reversed (but I've heard a left-left design would work), but the biggest problem I feel are those connection bars. I don't know if they should be there when offline, and I'm not sure if the status of people is shown well enough.

Yes. Left-left design will be done for Linux and probably Windows but here is only to talk about the OS X app.

Let me explain about those bars:

• When the user is offline, the three dots are empty and gray. This mean there is no connection to this peer as the user is offline.
• When the user is connecting to the peer, the three dots are orange and there is some kind of animation like "1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3 dots"
• When the user is online, busy or absent, the dots are not visible because there is already the status.

[Jookia]

Having those dots for offline users is a waste of space (arguably), as they don't do anything. I can understand the dots only happening for connecting but for offline it would really annoy me unless I can hide them. I like uniform layouts, but that's just my taste.

Okay, I removed offline dots.

[dubslow]

Is there anyone currently involved who does Objective C or any OS X specific development?

Yes, @stqism started the development.

[stal888]

sean
able to write objective-c

kek

[stqism]

@stal888 I planned on blatantly stealing code from poison/deepend/utox like every other client.

+1 I think it's a good idea to mix the source code of those clients as long as it's stable so you don't have to reinvent the wheel :)

Le 30 nov. 2014 à 21:50, Sean notifications@github.com a écrit :

@stal888 I planned on blatantly stealing code from poison/deepend/utox like every other client.

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Mockup updated.