[Adium-devl] Meta-contact account selection

Colin Barrett timber at lava.net
Sun Jul 20 18:52:47 UTC 2008


I would say take out an enhancement ticket. More testing is incredibly  
useful, and IMO a better use of your limited time (and more within the  
scope of your project too).

-Colin

On Jul 19, 2008, at 7:47 AM, "BJ Homer" <bjhomer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds great.  I'll skip the testing, in that case, since it will  
> probably be wiped out soon anyway.
>
> Should an enhancement ticket be filed for this, or does someone just  
> want to take it?  I suppose I could take it, but since I have my own  
> branch, trunk won't see it until the end of the summer, and it's not  
> really related to my project anyway.
>
> -BJ
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Evan Schoenberg  
> <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
>
> 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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