I invoke the “or something” clause of my previous post and declare myself the:

WINDOW MODE SHOGUN!

Yes. Bow down.

Ninja vs. Pope battles are SOOOO overdone.

Ninja _so_ beats pope. Divine authority, schmivine schmauthority, that’s what I always say; I practice the art of invisibility, fighting for truth, justice, and another slice of the pizza pie. 🙂

If Evan’s the window mode ninja, then I am the window mode Pope.

…Or something. Details to come.

Progress on the new message view continues, it’s looking very nice 🙂

I’ve created an RSS feed of the commit messages, if anyone cares to use it.

It’s currently located at http://www.visualdistortion.org/adium/rss.xml.

The problem is that the script has to be run manually to update it. Working on a cron solution.

I am the window mode ninja. Hear me roar. Details to come.

Didn’t feel like going to sleep this evening, didn’t feel like working on any of my current Adium projects (contact alerts, message view normality, drag and drop), so I cleaned up away message titles (the first responder status is still messed up initially), added title support to the status thing in the contact list, added external plugin checking (~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Plugins), and wrote a new plugin which I call Announcer. Announcer is found in the Sound prefpane and allows you to have the computer read you any combination of incoming and outgoing messages and the status messages, with or without the sender (for messages) and the timestamp. Somewhat random, I know 😉

As I sat here, I realized something:

It’s a pain in the okole to create a new plugin!

If anyone knows about Project Builder, and Applescripting it, or some mad shellscripting, or something, let me know.

Basically, anyone with Project-Builder-fu, email me 🙂

I’m currently working on a replacement for Adium’s message view. The way the current view is designed it requires all sorts of custom code to get basic functionality working. It’s going to take a lot of work to make the current view feel ‘normal’, and even then it will always behave slightly odd.

Recently, I’ve learned a new trick for dealing with text views. I should be able to recreate the same kind of look without missing out on any of the basic cocoa behavior, and we can keep features such as clickable smileys as well.

The message view, for me, is currently the most frustrating part of Adium, so it’ll be a great thing to see it replaced 😀