[Adium-devl] Adium patch suggestion - setting font color for incoming messages

[Kiel Gillard]

Hi all,
Is a ticket made for this? I could make one myself, but it seems like there
is a few more issues here other than just a UI for formatting outgoing
messages.

Thanks,

Kiel

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Colin Barrett <timber at lava.net> wrote:

> I'm just going to blast this out to the general development list,
> Josh. Hope you don't mind!
>
> On May 12, 2008, at 4:18 PM, Josh Dubois wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Adium doesn't seem to allow a user to easily set the font color for
> > incoming messages easily from the UI - even tweaking the style sheet
> > templates doesn't look like it allows that easily.  I would like to
> > add that feature to Adium.  I checked out the source a while back
> > and modified the message style nib to include a color picker for
> > incoming & outgoing messages (right now I have it so both use the
> > same color).  I've got it working so you can change the color of the
> > incoming & outgoing messages via a color picker from the preferences
> > panel.
> > This is probably a departure from the way the UI is designed right
> > now.  Most color tweaking seems to be done in style sheet
> > templates.  Also, I it looks like some (maybe all) of the messaging
> > protocols allow a color to be set by the sender and transmitted over
> > the wire.  Right now my patch ignores those colors, but I could make
> > that an option.
>
> The colors that are actually sent out over the wire are defined
> differently. See http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/FontsAndColors
>
> As for the display UI, perhaps it would make the most sense for the
> font color of the "Text Display:" pref to stick? Though that could get
> confusing because folks might think it's the place where you set what
> fonts/colors actually are sent out (which isn't the case).
>
> > What is the best way to bring this up for discussion?  Should I just
> > blurt out a message on the general development list, or is there an
> > existing discussion I could read before I ask?  I joined the
> > developer mailing list, but I don't see an archive.
> > What would you suggest as a first step to see if others are
> > interested in that feature?
>
> Really, the way Fonts & Colors are done overall in Adium is relatively
> confusing. If you've got a good idea for a UI to make this more
> intuitive, feel free to propose it :)
>
> -Colin
>
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