message styles in 1.4

[Matthew]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 18:30, Robert Vehse <robert.vehse at gmx.de> wrote:
> Matthew, have you made a decision regarding 2)? Some sort of indicator might
> be a good idea.

I've not. Chris was the only person who's offered an opinion on that,
and while I do like his idea, it seems likely to be a bit more
involved a change than is likely to make it into 1.4.

I'm inclined to append the asterisk unless someone objects.


> With regards to Xtras being updated, the application of the patch in
> http://trac.adium.im/ticket/13180 might come in handy.

While I wholeheartedly support improving a user's ability to know that
an xtra has an update and complete the update, I don't expect it to be
useful in this case. Styles that are bundled as well as being on Adium
Xtras aren't really interchangeable. U user can't upgrade from the
Xtras version to the bundled version, and we wouldn't want a version
loaded on Xtras to be able to replace the bundled version. (Imagine
asking a user to test bug X with Stockholm, only find out 50 comments
later that they were using a version updated from Xtras.)

This may be a good argument for the bundled versions using a unique
key (whether it be asterisk-appended or something else) so that the
bundled version is less like to be programatically confused with an
Xtras version.


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Matthew