[Adium-devl] Focus for 1.3?

[Chris Forsythe]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:52 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> Does this mean we ship 2 separate apps

Or a plugin.

> and that to configure one you need the other?

Aye. In order to modify a theme you'd need the author app for instance.

> It seems a bit like an odd paradox, but I understand the driving  
> (laudable) goal behind it. There must be seamless integration  
> between them if so.

Ya, that's the thing, I've been thinking about it for a while so I  
probably am just skimming the bad parts.

>
> Might it not work better to identify what subset of features of  
> each extra the majority uses and keep this within the application  
> proper, pushing only the 'knobs and sliders' of the full system out  
> into an optional app?

How would we ever identify that?

I'm not saying rip font prefs into a new app though, just to be  
clear. :)

Chris


>
> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
>
>
> On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>
>> So for 1.1 the focus is on getting the SoC projects that were
>> completed released. 1.2 is about Parental Controls. I was thinking
>> that 1.3 could be about making Adium simpler.
>>
>> Specifically I've thought that for a while that if we put the xtra
>> creation items into a separate application that we would be able to
>> focus on the end user more easily within Adium itself, and on the
>> Xtra author more easily in this separate application. On the whole
>> I've not come up with any downside to this plan, except for the
>> amount of work it would take to do something like this.
>>
>> Chris
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