The status menu item with badge does not have its own badge icons — it uses your selected status icon pack. So if you change to a different status icon pack, the badge will change with it.

Also, if you replaced your EMD images, the new ones will still be used under the badge.

At least one person doesn’t know what I mean by ‘badged’ in the status menu item. Set your status to Away or Idle or Invisible and you’ll see it.

I just committed the revised badging code. SVN users, update to at least revision 14849 14850 to see what it looks like.

I want you to use this for at least a couple of days, up to a week. Compare it to how you liked the previous EMD icon (status-icon-only). After you’ve given it time and reached a decision, drop us a line — you can find out how at the ContactUs page on the wiki.

UPDATE 4:22 PM: There was a bug (unrelated) in 14849 that kept Adium from launching. Update to 14850.

Those of you who run our current SVN source may have noticed that the EMD (the status menu item which displays in the top menu bar: the Evil Menu Duck) has been in a bit of flux recently. Evan changed it to use a status icon only. I think this looks a bit plain, so I changed it to have a badge. Evan thinks this looks ugly, so he reverted it to the status-icon-only.

So Evan and I worked out a plan — a request for those of you currently running SVN.

1. Over the next day or two, I want you to pay attention to the EMD in different states (available/away/idle/invisible/offline), and think about how you like it as a status icon only. I mainly want you to use it normally.
2. Then I’ll commit my current implementation (which brings back the badging, but now resized to no larger than the lower-right quadrant of the Duck). I’ll give that a week.
3. Then I want you to email feedback (at adiumx.com) with your opinion: which one do you prefer, and why? What do you like and dislike about the status-icon-only version, and what do you like and dislike about the badged version?

Thanks for your help.

I was under the impression it was an early Hanukkah gift, actually, Colin, but whatever you’re celebrating — even if it’s just the end of the year — here’s our present to you: Adium X 0.87 is now available for download.

Besides a slew of tasty bug fixes [including such popular ones as blocking/unblocking behavior, proper display of the current rather than the previous away message in message windows, and ICQ nickname retrieval], Adium 0.87 brings improved Off-the-Record encrypted chatting with OTRv3 and better fingerprint verification handling and welcomes Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian English, and Polish users to join the international Adium community.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our site and AdiumXtras host Network Redux, our Trac and Subversion host Penguin Militia Networks, and our download host CacheFly. All three are thoroughly awesome 🙂

Enjoy!

Blake Burris over at CocoaRadio will be interviewing Evan and me in the near future. If you’ve got any questions you want answered on the air, feel free to post them in the comments on CocoaRadio. Get some awesome questions in there, people!

Oh, and expect your Christmas gift from us a little bit early this year 😉 Happy Holidays!

OS X supports tlhIngan Hol… do you?

Trac, the Support & Development tab, is temporarily down for server upgrades. It’ll be back ASAP 🙂
Trac is back up and better than ever.

lies beta. Adium X 0.87 beta, specifically.

I’ve been working hard getting Adium up and running with the current CVS of Gaim 2.0.0. You can read more about Gaim 2 on the Gaim page. Of note are the many changes so far (not all of Gaim’s changes are relevant to Adium, but the change log gives you an idea how big a release it will be) including the non-gtk specific changes from the Google Summer of Code Gaim projects.

Another upcoming bit of fun-and-games from Gaim 2.0.0 is, hopefully, voice/video support. It’s likely that Voice support for Google Talk will come first, followed later by webcam support. Nothing is definite yet, so please don’t treat this as a promise, but we’re certainly excited at the prospect.

Calls to arms
1. Several of the new Gaim 2 changes need special attention for Adium to see any benefit, such as the new support for Yahoo Doodle. Interested in seeing Doodle support in Adium? Have enough coding experience to make it happen? Consider this an official invitation to try your hand.

The same goes for the new MSN Custom emoticon support and anything you see in the Trac list of tickets or want to see there. Help us help you — join the glorious elite and become an Adium patch writer 🙂

See Getting the Adium Source and Contributing Code for more information.

2. Through all these changes, we’re working on getting Libgaim and Adium ready to run on the new Intel-based Macs by making the binaries universal. Nobody on the development team has one of the Mactel transition kits, however. I need a Mactel, gcc 4.0.1 build of The GNU MP Bignum Library — specifically, the libgmp.a static library file. If you have access to a Mactel machine, please download, configure, make, make check, and send me the library, which is found in the .libs directory after building. Thanks!