[Adium-devl] Adium's feature list

Peter Hosey boredzo at adiumx.com
Sat Jan 24 03:01:24 UTC 2009


On 2009-01-23, at 18:34, Robert Vehse wrote:
> - Free and Open Source
> - Multi-protocol support

“What is ‘multi-protocol’? I have never used it. Could I find it on  
the AOL?”

I suggest changing it to “Support for multiple services”.

> - A delightful, intuitive UI
> 	- Cocoa

Let's not support the myth that Cocoa UIs are automatically better.  
Delete.

> 	- Tabbed Messaging

	Tabbed chat windows

> - Mac OS integration

Adium has never worked on Mac OS. Even the pre-open-source versions  
only worked on Mac OS X.

> 	- WebKit Message View

	Uses WebKit to display messages

> - Combined Contacts

Make it an imperative sentence:

	Combine your contacts so that each one represents a person, not an  
account

> - Events system (including Growl)

Add “Sophisticated” at the front.

> - Xtras and many, many other customization options (the latter being  
> Andy's idea)

Add “Adium” at the front and link “Adium Xtras” to the Xtras site.





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