message styles in 1.4

[Matthew]

I have two questions before I push the new message styles.

1) what should be the default variant for Smooth Operator? Right now
it's Classic.

2) What does everyone think about appending an asterisk to the name of
bundled message styles? I've seen recurring confusion about message
styles that are bundled vs added from xtras. A user can install the
version on Xtras, but in most cases it is installed but silently
ignored because it conflicts with the bundled version. The * would
also make it a bit easier to quickly find one of the bundled styles.



Matthew


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:56, Zachary West <zacw at adium.im> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 22:45, Matthew <mneedham at ei8ht.us> wrote:
>>
>> To bring this back around to styles in 1.4, what styles will be
>> bundled in 1.4? I *might* have time to update bundled styles to
>> support mention highlighting or other things, but I need to know
>> what's going to be there. None of the currently included styles use
>> %messageClasses%, so it might take a bit to add mention support while
>> making sure that the automatic classing doesn't interfere with the
>> existing classing. And of course, the mention notifications need added
>> in the spirit of the existing style. They would probably benefit from
>> a complete rewrite, but that would definitely take time. Perhaps the
>> original authors could help with this, but I've gotten the impression
>> that once a style is bundled with Adium the original author tends to
>> stop being involved (for whatever reason).
>
> The current set of styles + yMous - Renkoo Naked, with the regular Renkoo
> fixed to use the normal Template.html is the plan in my head.
> Updating the existing styles to work with %messageClasses% would be a good
> thing.
> --
> Zachary West
>



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Matthew