[Adium-devl] [Adium-feedback] I would like to port Adium to Windows XP

[Jorge Salvador Caffarena]

El 26/04/2006, a las 11:58, Kiel Gillard escribió:

> How do you define the spirit of Adium? To me, it's the Mac OS X  
> look and ease of use. Windows-izing would make it another class of  
> product (that is, not Adium). With the possibility of making it  
> harder to use. Neither the Windows Shell or WMP are as easy to use  
> products like Aqua and iTunes on Mac OS X (in my opinion, I guess).  
> If you're using a seperate code base, why not just make your own  
> multi-protocol IM program?
>
> Also, how would you make "Windium" different to Miranda, Trillian  
> et al? What exactly are you asking permission for? Are you asking  
> if you can name your IM program Adium? What features do you intend  
> on preserving in the Windows version (given the majority of the  
> code base depends on the Mac OS X APIs).

Well, if you use the same Xtras, same menu configuration, similar  
preferences layout and name it "Windium", it should have a little of  
the spirit of Adium in it ;-)

I say go for it, and as was suggested build a new IM app using the  
same cores (libgaim and maybe joscar) that is Adium "compatible/ 
approved/whatever". I would love to see that, my XP partition in the  
MBP would make some use of it ^_^

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Jorge Salvador Caffarena
http://www.salvadorcaffarena.com/