[Adium-devl] Adium's feature list

[Chris Forsythe]

On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adiumx.com> wrote:

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

Since when is open source a feature?

>>
>> - 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”.

You could add bullets for the four more popular ones, "and many more!"


>
>
>> - 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
>

What user knows what webkit is? Theme-able chat window or something  
like that might work better.


>> - 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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