[Adium-devl] Message style prefs

[Chris Forsythe]

My concern is that we'd be putting customizability by the author  
ahead of the end user. That's why I wanted to see if there are any  
common requests we get which are reasonable to be put into main  
preferences themselves. Does anyone have a comprehensive list of the  
functionality that these authors are requesting?

Chris

On Sep 1, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> 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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