message styles in 1.4

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Matthew <mneedham at ei8ht.us> wrote:

> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 18:38, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan at adium.im>
> wrote:
>
> > We should just not allow bundled styles to appear on AdiumXtras.com.
>  Done
> > and done.  If you want to publish a variant of a bundled style, post it
> with
> > a unique name.
> > -Evan
>
> That would work for styles that first appeared within Adium, but for
> most of the bundled styles, the cat's already out of the bag. In fact,
> The bundled styles were chosen because they were already very popular
> on Xtras. This guarantees that many users will have
> duplicate/conflicting message styles the first time a style on Xtras
> is bundled.
>
> I *do* think it would be beneficial to do a bit more checking of
> message styles before they are approved. A message style has to have a
> unique name set in three different places, and It's not that unusual
> for someone who mods an existing style to fail to "fix" one of more of
> the three places. I only recently added this to the wiki, so maybe it
> will improve. However,  I'm guessing that implementing a check for
> this would require an overhaul of Xtras, and I'm not expecting that to
> happen anytime soon.
>
>
>

Or just a validator script the reviewer runs locally. ;)

Chris



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> Matthew
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