[Adium-devl] My status, and some 1.4 planning

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Aug 02, 2008, at 22:18, David Smith wrote:

> 	I've told many of you, but not all: I'm no longer with Jive Software,
> and am currently unemployed. I've got stuff in the pipe to change that
> that I'm pretty excited about, so don't feel too sorry for me ;)
>
> 	What this does mean is that I have some time, most likely a few
> weeks, to work full time on Adium. I'd like to take advantage of that
> to the fullest extent by trying to tackle some "projects" that have
> been on my mind for a while.

yay! Welcome to your own "Summer of Code" ;)

> 7) Polish and fix the IRC plugin. This means getting groupchat
> bookmarks working with IRC, adding autoidentify support, making /msg
> open a new window, fixing /me to show up properly, fixing nick change
> handling, and making account setup more intuitive.

Note that there are a lot of tickets concerning IRC/XMPP MUC on trac,  
you might want to hunt them down one-by-one.

As I've been using Adium for IRC fulltime for a few months now, I know  
about the issues that have to be fixed before it can go into production:
* Toggle User List setting is not remembered
* Own /me doesn't show up
* Foreign /me looks weird with those ** around it instead of just  
"<nick> <message>" (IIRC that's just a message style settings issue)
* topic/subject isn't shown unless you ask for it
* Clicking on a growl popup should scroll the chat window to the place  
where the event occurred, not just open the chat.

There are a few more, but those are the ones I encounter every day.

There's a patch sitting in trac for adding encoding support to IRC  
using a settings popup, I don't know if that one has been analyzed/ 
applied yet.

andy