Nice, Evan.

lol

Your dock icon will sometimes be upside down in Friday’s binary. This is a known bug and will hopefully be resolved soon. 🙂

Interested in a piece of history? Rename your ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0 to “Adium 2.0-old” before loading this gem, ’cause 2004 preferences just don’t like to play with 2003 preferences.

Adium, one year ago today: Adium_02-19-2003.dmg

Beware, current binary has a nasty bug where it crashes if you use the iTunes Integration plugin and don’t have iTunes running.

So if you use it for your profile, make sure iTunes is always running, at least until this is fixed.

Thanks for your patience.

[Update] Already fixed in source, will be in tomorrow’s binary.

A happy Valentine’s Day to everyone. Especially to my sweetheart. I love you 🙂

Fixed so far:

– Unviewed content flashing

– Tab updating issues

– Group (Online/Total) count issues

– Graphical problems when dragging contacts

– Duplicate dock overlays issues

🙂

Tomorrow’s binary will contain the new contact list code. Please report any crashes, bugs, strange behavior you experience 🙂

The areas of interest are:

– Add contact menu item

– Add group menu item

– Delete selection menu item

– Re-ordering of contacts and groups directly on the contact list (If you’re in manual order mode)

– Ability to de-group contacts, and to create groups within groups

We’ve also changed the behavior of the ‘source’ account menus (For those with multiple accounts on the same service), and a few other areas related to contacts.

The ‘Contact list editor’ window will be removed in time. Please use the inline editing functions whenever possible. No bug reports for the contact list editor window please! 🙂

A few notes:

– Your list changes are applied server-side! Keep this in mind and please backup your contact lists before playing.

– Groups are always visible at the moment, even when they contain no online contacts. This is temporary.

– Groups cannot be moved into each-other yet. However, you can create nested groups by creating a new group named like ‘Friends:School’ or ‘Family:Old’.

– There is currently no way to edit offline contacts on the contact list. This is temporary. You can delete offline contacts at the moment using the list editor window.

– Icons are not being loaded from the address book. We are investigating a fix to this issue.

The binary hasn’t been updating since the 3rd due to a compiling error… An -actual- February 6th binary and an appropriate changelog should be up in a bit.

If you have an Orkut account, you can join the Adium community. If you don’t have Orkut yet, You should ask a friend who does to invite you.

Work on the new contact list system (and editor) is coming along… don’t give up on us just yet 🙂

I’m interested in removing the contact list editor completely, and allowing the list to be manipulated directly in the contact list window. I think with some small improvements we can get a really nice inline list editor that is just as powerful as anything in a separate window would be.

In order to have fully functional inline editing, we needed some changes to how Adium handles contacts (especially contacts that are in more than one place on the contact list). I’m working on these at the moment, and things are progressing.

The changes should lift a few restrictions currently in place on our contact list, and allow thing such as separating accounts into their own groups, the ability to place groups within groups, and placing contacts outside of any group – in addition to the ability for an inline editor.