[Adium-devl] Focus for 1.3?

[Chris Forsythe]

On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

>
> 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.

I'm not a fan of this either. Options should be the same across  
themes, theme authors shouldn't be able to disable options. Some  
people do have bad taste. :)

Chris