Lloyd Sparkes : Cobalt and IRC Client

{ 2009 12 18 }

Cobalt and IRC Client

One of the projects i am currently working on is Cobalt, which is a IRC Client. Below is my first go at the interface.

Posted by Lloyd Sparkes on Friday, December 18, 2009, at 3:07 PM. Filed under Cobalt, WPF. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

[ICR] | December 22, 2009 at 7:21 PM | Permalink

What’s with the ugly purple? Also, it’s not obvious that the tabs are tabs.
Lloyd Sparkes | December 22, 2009 at 7:47 PM | Permalink

I personally thought the purple was quite nice, but i think something more subtle might be better.
Yea the tabs need some improvement
[ICR] | December 22, 2009 at 7:57 PM | Permalink

Also, what’s your strategy for lots of tabs? Some people are in a lot of channels.
Lloyd Sparkes | December 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM | Permalink

For the moment i’m thinking of doing it like browsers do, so you can scroll through the tabs, unless i can think of something better. It isnt a use-case i have thought much about, as i very rarely have more than 5 or 6 channels / servers open
bennuk | January 11, 2010 at 9:10 PM | Permalink

The purple isn’t bad, though a bit dark.

You releasing a trial version of this? Wouldn’t mind playing with it.
Lloyd Sparkes | January 11, 2010 at 9:13 PM | Permalink

bennuk, thanks for the feedback, i will be releasing a beta version (it will be open source), when i have some time to sit down and get the actual code written (at the moment, its just a interface)