Lord of the Libs 😀

I am the lib master, apparently.

The RSS feed no longer munges returns, and is being run every hour at :45.

Well, the top secret project is underway, officially. I worked on it for about 4 hours last night, and then Adam did some work on it today, and now I’ve picked it back up. There’s still a long way to go, though, we’re just getting started. To the few people who know what’s going on, remember, don’t spill the beans! 😉

To the rest of you: This super top secret project is a real milestone in the development of Adium. The developers in general, and Adam and I in particular, have been looking to do something like this for a long time now; in fact, Adium was designed for something like this. Once it’s complete, prepare for a new age of Instant Messaging on the Mac.

(I’ve given you enough clues, but it’s really not what you think it is :-))

I’ve now built a copy of Adium from XCode in Panther with the 10.2.x compatibility libraries enabled; no problems have been reported running in either 10.2 or 10.3. All will be well; no worries.

Panther is coming on the 24th 🙂

There are lots of new developer goodies, but we’ll be careful not to break 10.2 compatability. I’ve also heard that XCode makes it easier to keep compatability with older systems, which should definitely be a plus.

The super duper top secret project will get underway very soon :-). I’m getting the patchfile for it, we just need to decide if we’re gonna have a snapshot or do some mad haxor checkout thingy.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, guess ;-). Adam’s new prefs are sweet and chunky, by the way 😀

One Mode to rule them all; One Mode to find them

One Mode to bring them all and in the tab bars bind them

In the Land of Panther where the windows lie.

While our extensive preferences win us a lot of users, they lose us a lot of users as well. The problem is that they are just too complicated, and that there are way too many of them. 🙁

So, I’m working on revamping them. The goal is to have basic, ‘Mom Friendly’ preferences without sacrificing the customizability that advanced users have grown to love. How do we accomplish this?

Well, the plan is to create an ‘advanced’ category on the preference window. This category will house all the complicated preferences that wouldn’t make it into the release of an Apple product, organized in an easy to navigate list. The other categories will be slimmed down and simplified as much as possible, until they reach an iApp/Mom friendly state 🙂

This will let us have easy to use preferences, with a treasure cove of customization concealed in the advanced pane for all that wish to find it. With these changes in place, it’s likely that more preferences will appear, since we no longer have to worry about them interfering with the non-advanced users.

I’ll try and keep everyone up to date on the progress.

Draggable tabs are incredible! 🙂 They’re so much more intuitive than using the contextual menus, you guys are going to love em.

::thumbs up to Evan::