Unfortunately there has been no activity regarding this topic. So let’s start with the start screen.
Start screen
Prawnsalad said it’s solved and will look like this https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/?settings=ws64rbgn43d
I suggest to put the image into the background, make it blurry, and perhaps iterate through some variants. Could look like this:
(image taken from https://publicdomainreview.org/2013/08/07/the-lost-world-of-the-london-coffeehouse/)
Workflow
Second topic is ‘the upper right part of the UI’ including account, system configuration, access to networks, and channels.Looks currently like this:
The functional requirements are
- Account
- Forget settings
- Configuration
- ~20 options to tweak the UI
- definition of aliases (used as shortcuts for normal commands)
- -> settings are related to the account (or system?)
- Network
- network address
- user account
- Channels
- overview and selection
I would reorganize the content and use the tabs for networks (given it becomes real tabs, today the view doesn’t change) and move all configuration things into the account area.
(Currently, the selected channel is indicated by a small bar with the drawback of indentation)
Prawsalad replied briefly that most/many users are connected to more than one server. Doubt that and suggest a survey/poll. But as an alternative the tabs could be vertically.
Another problem with the mockup is that all settings are cramped into the account section. Not bad IMHO, but if I’m wrong it could be solved with an overlay window. Basically I would keep the main view for the channel discussion.