[Adium-devl] Logging Enhancements

[phriedrich]

Hallo,

I think with the upcoming IRC and improved multi chat support for Jabber
it's getting more useful to have this optional, nearly nobody will  
log the
IRC server's chanserv messages and such things.

/phriedrich

Am 10.08.2007 um 15:20 schrieb Chris Forsythe:

> Really? It seems like something only a few people would use.
>
> Chris
>
> On Aug 10, 2007, at 2:27 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>> I think we would want this functionality in Adium itself.
>>
>> The reason why it's not in there right now is that nobody's bothered
>> to implement it.
>>
>> -Colin
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:46 PM, George Armah wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I would like to write a plugin that enables logging individually   
>>> per
>>> contact rather than the way it is set up now. (ref tickets #8,  
>>> #6626,
>>> #2269).
>>> After reading through the source I currently have two implementation
>>> options:
>>>
>>> The first is to subclass AILoggerPlugin and have the new class
>>> uninstall
>>> the original plugin. The new class will be have exactly like the
>>> original plugin
>>> until the user decides to disable / enable logging individually.
>>>
>>> The second option is to use categories to do method swizzling with
>>> the
>>> methods under the -pragma mark Logging section in AILoggerPlugin.
>>> The new
>>> methods would facilitate individual logging if a user chooses that
>>> option, they'll be identical to the old methods otherwise.
>>>
>>>
>>> In terms of UI, from what I know, the only way for a user to modify
>>> per
>>> contact attributes using Adium's interfaces is via the contextual
>>> menu.
>>> (There are some
>>> exceptions to this like Blocking). I plan to have Enable Logging and
>>> Disable Logging in the contextual menu and in the main menu bar  
>>> under
>>> Contacts.
>>> To avoid confusion, I'll have the Log Messages under General
>>> preferences
>>> override any plugin options ie. if you have it enabled then you  
>>> can't
>>> log chats per contact.
>>>
>>> Someone also mentioned on IRC that a better way to do this would
>>> be to
>>> modify AILoggerPlugin so that it has "hooks" other classes can  
>>> use if
>>> they want to modify logging behavior. I haven't thought through this
>>> in
>>> detail but I'll look into doing these hooks for individual logging
>>> vs.
>>> normal logging settings.
>>>
>>> I wanted to pass my plans by the devs here before starting actual
>>> code.
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks in advance for feedback,
>>>
>>> George.
>>>
>>>
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