[Adium-devl] Meta-contact account selection

Evan Schoenberg evan.s at dreskin.net
Sat Jul 19 16:47:31 UTC 2008


On Jul 19, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Historically, reordering contacts within a metacontact was  
> difficult.  You had to go to the Get Info window (not an obvious  
> place), and sorting often failed to stick or to have the expected  
> results because the sort ordering code was ugly.
>
> As of 1.3svn, both of those historical problems are resolved.   
> Ordering can be done in the contact list, and the ordering will  
> actually stick and not result in 'random order between 2 given  
> contacts because they have the same order index' which used to  
> happen fairly regularly as there was no conflict resolution.

Oh, forgot to mention another change from when that code was written:  
Historically, metacontacts produced by the address book could store no  
preferences permanently, including ordering, because they were  
recreated at each launch. That, too, is now fixed.

-Evan
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