[Adium-devl] Focus for 1.3?

[Colin Barrett]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:43 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.

Really, the Xtras we're talking about here are mainly the Contact List  
xtras (I think). Earlier, David put forth the WKMV xtras as a good  
model for continued Xtra development, and I mostly agree (although  
variants could be done a bit more elegantly).

How about a WebKit contact list, then? David was poking at this a bit  
earlier, and it seemed like the only thing that was hairy was  
alternating row color support. In general, a similar model to the  
WKMV2 could be used.

Why this approach? For one, our current contact list is rather  
limited. The only control over it you have is essentially a few  
switches and knobs, and if you compare the diversity and creativity of  
our message styles to the contact list ones, the benefits of an HTML- 
based architecture are pretty clear.

How about it?

-Colin