[Adium-devl] Focus for 1.3?

[Andre-John Mas]

On 6-Mar-07, at 18:19 , disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> My clarification is more along the lines of...
>
> Bob wants to customize his contact list just a little (like the  
> sign on color because he can't see it.) He opens the prefs, has  
> fonts, a couple checkboxes, and a list of themes. He clicks  
> "Customize..." or some such and is told he needs a full app to make  
> a theme. Bob is now scared because "I'm not a themer, I just wanted  
> to change a color." so he backs away and goes back to a stock  
> Adium, sad that he "couldn't figure it out."

If its about changing a simple attribute, then on the condition the  
theme makes this parameter modifiable,
then this should be done from within Adium. If it is about editing a  
theme more extensively then a
separate tool would be better. Apple has done this with the  
Dashboard: for most people there is
Dashboard.app, but for people who want to delve in and do more  
advanced stuff there is Dashcode.app.

For me this helps reduce support issues when the theme creator never  
intended attribute x
of the theme to be modifiable.

Andre