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[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:19 +0200, Conscious User wrote:

> One thing that is universal, though, is how they are
> displayed: picture on the left, message to the right
> with the name in bold. So why not take advantage of
> the familiarity of this layout to make the purpose
> of the broadcasting field more evident? See the
> attached mockup.

> You will also notice that I added a "says:" to the
> broadcasting field. I thought it might be a good
> way to differentiate broadcasts from IM custom
> status, which are more like temporary descriptions.
> But I'm not entirely sure on this one.

I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field.
But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you still
would have to ask: Say where? To whom?


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