Yahoo Messenger for Vista - WPF Goodness! | The Coffeehouse

MarkPerris

Hello,

I haven't seen this posted here, so just thought I would drop you a link for some screenshots from the forthcoming Vista version of Yahoo Messenger. As you can see, it looks pretty gorgeous.

I think this is the first commerical WPF application, beating even Microsoft to it (if you exclude their WPF development environment, that is...)

http://thewpfblog.com/?p=76

Angus
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I like some aspects of it, i.e. the fact it fits in with the GUI of Windows Vista; but I don't especially like the avatars used, as it is unlikely that people would use ones like those shown, and the cutting out of the background of the person shown (the person whose hair is over-lapping the desktop) would not work as well I suspect. Thanks for the link.

Angus Higgins

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

Nice, I love the color picker. I'd love to see that in action.

webmonkey
How am i supposed to code with theeeeeese ?

Cool, that looks like one hell of an improvement from the current Y! messenger.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

Wow. That is awesome Smiley

harumscarum
out of memory

very cool. Can't wait until Vista is released and the NDAs around the world will be no more!

littleguru
<3 Seattle

harumscarum wrote:
very cool. Can't wait until Vista is released and the NDAs around the world will be no more!

They still will be... But move to other things Tongue Out

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Wow! The window is enormous; but looks cool Smiley

nightski

Awesome! I hope we see lots of WPF apps in the future.
But does it still make the annoying sounds?

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

We just got a demo of it up on Channel 10. Very cool, I want to use it Smiley

Check it out here: http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/yahoo-messenger-on-wpf/

glebd
Turning coffee into code

This is the sign of things coming. Gorgeous graphics—if you can afford a good UI designer—but you can forget about UI consistency. Microsoft never managed to enforce it, even for their own software, and now that everyone and their dog will be able to write a huge ugly semi-transparent CD ejector application, it will become even worse. And the worst of all, Windows users won't care much. They are used to ugly interfaces, after all, starting with Windows itself. Sigh.

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

That's a nice well thought out response there.

Consistency is just one way of making a usable program, and it's had its day for the most part. Sticking to one design paradigm even if it's hit its limits isn't a way to make a program usable. It's just a way of excusing the fact you haven't bothered to find a better way.

And if you can't afford to design a program to be usable, then you'll suffer anyway, now it should be easier to design a usable program. And since when should Microsoft "enforce" consistency. I'd be pretty peeved if another company was dictating terms to me.

I'm looking forward to the best designed apps getting better, and the worst getting lost.

glebd
Turning coffee into code

Massif wrote:
And since when should Microsoft "enforce" consistency. I'd be pretty peeved if another company was dictating terms to me.

Well they do publish UI guidelines, don't they? What for, may I ask? Surely not for themselves!

Apple also has UI guidelines (much better thought out, BTW). The difference is that non-conforming Mac applications don't sell.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

<pirate voice>They be more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.</pirate voice>