[Adium-devl] [Adium-soc2006] To the 2007 Adium Mentors

[Ofri Wolfus]

Hi Michael,

I'm not a mentor but I have few things to say:
1) This list is probably outdated. It's better to send this mail to  
adium-devl at adiumx.com where everyone can discuss it (included in the  
CC).
2) Adium already supports notes although I agree this feature could  
probably be made more useful. The fact it's hidden so well (Contact >  
Get Info > Settings > Notes is really not obvious IMHO) probably  
doesn't help either.
3) Drawers are disappearing from the UI and lots of people find them  
clumsy and/or ugly. It's probably better to come up with another way  
to view notes.
4) Considering Adium already supports notes (and even if it wasn't,  
adding notes support that's integrated to AB is really easy using the  
AB framework), do you honestly think this can fill 3 months of full  
time coding?

Cheers,
- Ofri

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On 17/03/2007, at 22:59, Rudd Zwolinski wrote:

> Hello all,
> I had no idea which mentor would be best to talk to, so I decided  
> to send it to you all.  I plan on applying to Adium for this year's  
> summer of code, and I think I have an interesting idea, but I  
> wanted to run it by you before applying, since it's my own idea,  
> not a listed one.  My idea is this: onto the message window, a  
> drawer would be attached, allowing you to leave notes for a certain  
> contact, where the drawer is activated by an icon on the chat  
> toolbar (or by some other means, e.g. the contact menu).  I made a  
> photoshop mock-up of what it might look like as a finished  
> product.  http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mrz5/adium/ 
> adiumNotes.jpg .  Note the large friendly letters telling me to not  
> panic.  I think this might make an interesting addition to Adium,  
> with uses such as notes for a business group chat, and for leaving  
> yourself a note to tell someone something when they're just not  
> online, or are going on a rant about the state of onion farming  
> today, and you really have to ask them about going to dinner, you  
> can just leave them a note.  Side note: this could even be relevant  
> to #2414. ;)
>
> So this is my idea, and I think it might even be a feature that  
> could be touted as an advantage over iChat, especially if Adium  
> ever gets video or audio chat features.  I was wondering what you  
> all thought about this.  If you want to contact me, just reply to  
> this email, or if you want to have a discussion, my AIM contact is  
> "owns a knifoon" (same as in the picture).  Thanks for your time,  
> and I hope you like my idea!
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael Rudd Zwolinski
> ruddzw at gmail.com
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mrz5/
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