message styles in 1.4

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Matthew <mneedham at ei8ht.us> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

If the drop down list had something like

Included
-Style
-Style
-Style
-Style
Xtras
-Style
-Style
-Style

I think that would be easier to tell the difference.

Chris


>
> 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
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
> Matthew
>
>
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