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> For a 1.0 release (it has been updated to fix some bugs), Adium is a very
> good AIM client - surprisingly good! There are some
> features of Adium which I would like Fire to try to incorporate (Adium's
> source is available. see below).
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> Things I like about the Adium AIM client - take heed Fire:
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> When receiving a new message, Adium's dock icon bounces, and flaps it's
> wing (since it's a bird). The flapping is pretty neat!
Not having seen this in action, I can't comment much, however, one concern
that Eric has had is with the file size of Fire. An icon is a 128x128
32-bit image. That's 64 kibobytes uncompressed, with compression the Fire
icon gets down to 47 kibobytes. Multiple this by each frame of animation
and the size for the images inflates quickly, thus bringing the file size
up. Not everyone is on high-speed just yet. Isn't a simply bouncing and
flashing icon enough? ^_-
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> Adium makes great use of the dock menu (one of my favorite features). It
> tells you if it's connected, and allows you to disconnect. It allows you
> to create a new message or create/join a chat. And get user info and set
> an away message all from the dock. I also wish OS X's dock menu API had a
> "Hide app." option.
This could be implemented (and perhaps someone's working on it now),
however, to my knowledge won't be ready for .29a. Fire does have services
for new massages and create/join chats though, and I personally use
services more than dock menus.
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> Adium also as a multiple window option, allowing you to either have the
> buddy list and all messages in one window (I like this option), a buddy
> list in a window and all messages in another, or multiple windows - one
> window for each message. I like having the option to switch the windows!
> The 1 window and 2 window option are my favorites!
Most people I know prefer multiple windows. For multiple services it
could get rather confusing (try doing IRC in the terminal chatting in 5
channels and doing private messages with another 10 or so.....having
everything in one window gets very confusing very quickly.) since so many
services do so many things differently.
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> When you receive a message, the screen name (or alias) of the sender
> blinks in the buddy list. This is a nice feature!
Could be implemented, don't know if is currently. Massinova uses this
(scrolling though) and Xenon (one of the Massinova developers) has helped
a tad on Fire. Then again, some people have small docks like me, so it
would be unreadable.
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> Adium has "status circles" as icons for each buddy in the buddy list. I'm
> not quite sure how to interpret them, but with a little tweaking and
> better status icon, it could be a really good feature. Fire could have
> the service's icon display the buddy's status?
I think this is -somewhat- in the works. I know it's been discussed about
graying out services that are disconnected, and when that code gets
finished it should be easily implementable to work with buddy status.
Currently Fire changes the color of the buddy name or adds (Away), or both.
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> I like Adium's use of sheets for log-in!
>
But then you have to type the password in manually.....
> Adium uses the system keychain!
(see above), but could work for some.
>
> Adium can use AIM's standard sounds (I like this option a lot!)
AIM standard sounds = uncompressed = large. This is the area I'm looking
into to lower Fire's file size (sounds take up more space than all the
images at present). Besides, if QT can read AIM's sound files, than Fire
can as well, just drop by the Sounds preferencse.
>
> Another feature I'd like to see in Fire, is support for "Your buddy is
> typing." I'm not sure which services support this, but this would be a
> very nice and welcome addition to Fire!
TOC currently does not support direct connect, which is needed for this in
AIM. MSN uses it and is displayed in the console. I don't know about the
other services, except that IRC doesn't have it.
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> What do you all think about these features?
See all comments above ^_^
>
> Thanks!
> -Jeff
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