[Adium-devl] Message style prefs

[Colin Barrett]

I've been talking about a (terrifyingly) complex system for years.  
There's a ticket about it.

Why not just let them include a web page though, which we display in a  
sheet? To store a pref value, they'd call some native exposed object,  
like, "prefs". We'd then expose that same object to them (again via  
JS, I guess) in the message style.

Is JS for them better or do they like the replstrs that we currently  
have? We could add those tokens to our parser from the dict we expose  
in prefs.

I definitely think that allowing message style authors to design the  
UI for their own style is important -- creative and outside-the-box  
styles are really neat and a big draw for Adium, I think. Plus, we  
(for the most part) aren't message style author gurus or really even  
really good web designers. It's hard for us to say what they will want.

Just my 2¢.

-Colin


On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:33 PM, David Smith wrote:

> 	I got another request from a style author for message-style-specific
> prefs today. The benefits are rather striking: eliminate 80+ variants
> that are just trivial CSS changes. The downside is figuring out the
> UI. One proposal that has been made is simply providing an API for
> saving and loading prefs values, and letting message styles provide
> their own configuration UI (for example: a dashboard style 'i' button
> in the header that turns it into a configure window). I'm not
> convinced this is a good thing to do though, so I'd welcome input on  
> it.
>
> 					David
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