[Adium-devl] GSOC Application Questions

[Peter Hosey]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 20:25:49, Conrad Owen wrote:
> A couple of the things that I can already think of changing would  
> need to be removed are the user icon displays and the graphics that  
> usually group together blocks of statements made by a single user.

These are provided by the message view style. I don't know that we  
provide any facility to distinguish one-to-one chats from group chats  
in the message view style, so you would have to add one.

> User icons take up valuable screen real estate and statement blocks  
> are often interrupted by other chatters, thereby rendering the  
> usefulness of the statement block graphics useless.

This really is a message-view style decision.

> Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience with Objective-C,  
> but I do frequently program in Java, C++, Python, and Ruby, so I  
> have a lot of object-oriented programming experience.

That's good, but you really need to already have familiarity with  
Objective-C and Cocoa before you start working on Adium.

If you want to be a GSoC student on Adium, you should throw yourself  
into Cocoa *right now*. You have just under two months, in which time  
you can become at least moderately proficient before the coding phase  
begins.

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