New Adium 2.0 ideas

[Ryan Govostes]

On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Juan Camilo Barrera wrote:

> Hi, i use Adium but recently i had some troubles with my MSN account, i hope you can fix them,

We need more information in order to figure out what's going wrong.

Please read http://trac.adium.im/wiki/ReportingBugs for details.

Also, please do not send bug reports to this mailing list. If we accepted bug reports via e-mail we would be inundated with them. (To give you an idea, right now there are 13,875 tickets on the website --- imagine getting several e-mails for each one.)

> another thing i'd like to coment, is that now that Microsoft Messenger supports V/A support, its a necessity that Adium do it too, i know that you are working on it, and it will be called Adium 2.0, and now i want to give my small grain.

You can read about your current progress here:

http://trac.adium.im/wiki/VoiceAndVideo

> 
> Here is an sketch of some features i'd like Adium 2.0 introduce, there are only ideas, but if you are intrested on, i can help with the design part.

I suggest that you request features online. We have a guide here:

http://trac.adium.im/wiki/RequestingFeatures

1. Voice and Audio Support
(See above.)

2. Snippest
This feature could certainly be added, but I do not know how much faster it is to switch from the keyboard to the mouse, navigate to a tiny popup button (see Fitts' Law), and then select it from a menu.

You could achieve this with an Xtra. Here is one that randomly picks a quote and inserts it in the message, you could use it as a starting point:

http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=1763

3. New Design
i. Toolbar icons moved to right hand side
You can do this from the View menu by selecting "Customize Toolbar". Then drag the "Flexible Space" element to the left side of the toolbar.

ii. New toolbar icons
Adium 1.4 has a few new toolbar icons designed by George Lambrou.

iii. You can change the wallpaper
You can do this under Preferences > Appearance and check "Use a custom background" at the bottom. Or you can just drag a background image onto the window. This feature has been there for a while.

iv. You can change the color scheme
Many themes have a "variant" which offer different color options. But it is not the most intuitive thing to make custom color schemes, I agree.

v. You can change the font
This too is customizable under Preferences > Appearance, just press "Set Font..." under "Text Display."

4. Bug-free

A pipe dream, unfortunately, and a claim that would be hard to defend. However, your estimate of 200 bugs fixed is pretty good, since according to the Roadmap we've got about that many tickets closed for 1.4.

http://trac.adium.im/roadmap

Regards,
Ryan Govostes
Adium Developer
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