[Adium-devl] Support for adding new view?

[Andre-John Mas]

On 10-Nov-06, at 15:14 , Colin Barrett wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by a new view -- where exactly would you  
> want said view to show up?

Well it could be either a window or a widget, though I haven't really  
figured which would be best.

> Adding meta-data in a per-user fashion is done with our ByObject  
> prefs system.
>
> Chris brings up an excellent point -- we were thinking of adding an  
> International area to the get info window (it's getting a facelift  
> soon, more on that as I have time to write it) with per-user Spell  
> Check prefs and timezone information.

I wonder whether having long/lat would be handy, or at least country?  
For my idea it would certainly be useful.
Actually, thinking about maybe there could be a way of getting that  
information from the address book?

> As far as a UI goes, what you would probably want would be to add a  
> new item to the  Window menu to "Show Contacts Globe" (it would  
> change to Hide when the window is visible, obviously). Then it  
> would bring up a window with your cool (xearth-style?) globe.  
> Adding menu item is done via our Menu Controller, and then it's  
> just standard NSMenuItem stuff to hook that up to a target/action  
> to show/hide you window.

sounds good.

> Hope that helps! Let us know if you run into any major snags --  
> we're trying to stabilize and clean up the plugin architecture so  
> plugin authors can actually make use of it (What is the status of  
> that effort, anyway?).

At the moment it is still in the "gee that would be cool" state.  
Basically its still a concept :)

Andre