message styles in 1.4

[David Smith]

Either of the icon-time variants. We have new shiny, let's show it to people.

	David

On May 13, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Matthew 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 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
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