Title:  	 Better chat log viewer
Student: 	Adam Fowler
Abstract: 	I propose that I can improve the current log viewer.

Here is a link to the current look of the log:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7SCDXyMBhLnCqm7BHVs3dg?feat=directlink

Here is a link to how I think it should look: 
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/aEXSVhhgOKhJCv9vIglh-w?feat=directlink


    * I want to improve the UI for the log viewer, remove redundancy of some aspects, and streamline features into a more easily understandable method.  Also, I think there should be a "sort by" feature for the searching of the log. 

 

    * Difficult parts of this project will be finding the grouping by person.  I feel this may require some linkage on the users part, as not everyone has similar contact informations.  Such as: "'markdoliner' on AIM and 'mark.doliner@…' on XMPP".  

In short, at the end of the summer, pidgin's log viewer WILL be more user friendly, and generally a bit better organized. 
It may also have a sorting feature.  



CONTACT INFO
Name: Adam Fowler
IRC: irc.freenode.net
IRC Handle: Adola
Email: xadolax@gmail.com

 
''Tuesday 25, 2010'' : Setup monotone and installed devel version of Pidgin.[[BR]]
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''Monday 31, 2010'' : I read "The C Programming Language", it was a speed run though (one night) so I'll no doubt have to go back and re-read a few things, but it's getting me through learning GTK+ 2.0. I'm going to spend the rest of the day learning GTK. 
 

Please email about any questions at xadolax@gmail.com.