[Adium-devl] Focus/What are we doing?

[Colin Barrett]

On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:10 AM, Ofri Wolfus wrote:

> I know I've been out of business lately due to many reasons (I can't  
> even reply to email and connect to IRC and GTalk during the week)  
> but here are my thoughts.
>
> Adium is currently having a huge market share which we're not using.  
> With such a huge base, we can start fixing what we think is wrong  
> with the current IM experience, rather than aligning with the big  
> companies and the "traditional" IM experience. Therefor, I believe  
> our goal should be making the IM experience right and as pleasant as  
> possible to the user.
> We already tried being revolutionary with ChatKit and other crazy  
> ideas which failed, but we can be different. If it's by pushing XMPP  
> and making it easy to use, having a SoC project for a breaking  
> contact list, a contact list that acts like the Dock, smart groups  
> or all the other innovative ideas we had.
>
> Having the features everyone else have is important, but our  
> innovation is at least as important as that, if not more.

I think we could do a better job of making some of our more neat  
features more obvious, hide on screen edges particularly.

Maybe we want to have a new prefpane for the contact list?

-Colin