[eevyl]

Finally released, some info from Adium X:

The 0.7 update includes a major revamp of the contact list, improved group chat support, contact grouping, Rendezvous support and numerous other additions and improvements. Adium supports all the major instant messaging services -- AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, ICQ, and more -- and features an attractive, customizable interface.

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It may take a while for Adium 0.7 to reach all the sourceforge mirrors. The following mirrors are known to have the 0.7 release:
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Duesseldorf, Germany
- Paris, France
- Brussels, Belgium
- Dublin, Ireland





What's New for Version 0.70
Services
- Added Rendezvous support (iChat compatible)
- Added Zephyr support (on properly configured machines)
- (MSN) Display names are no longer truncated
- (MSN) Added the option to treat display names as status
- (MSN) Added support for conversation closed and timed-out messages
- (ICQ) Added support for specifying a custom text encoding
- (Jabber) Accounts can now be registered from within Adium
- (Sametime) Added support for server-side list storage
- (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) Added support for viewing profiles
- Added support for gaim's protocol specific /commands
- Corrected several harmless protocol errors

Contact list
- Added user icons, extended status, status icons, and background image support
- Added contact grouping (From the address book or by dragging contacts with option held down)
- Added options for contact list text alignment
- Improved scaling, coloring, and positioning of group triangles
- Improved opacity when using a grid or status coloring
- Improved docking behavior (List now remembers which edge it was docked to)
- Improved snap to edge behavior (Hold down shift while dragging to disable)
- Improved manual ordering behavior, performance, and memory usage

Messages and Chat
- Added support for creating and joining group chats on AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo
- Added an option to apply home and end in the text entry view
- Improved HTML decoding performance
- Improved group chat interface, behavior
- Improved support for displaying message related errors
- Improved behavior of typing notifications
- Improved copy-to-clipboard behavior of the Minimal message style
- Basic file transfer messasges (send, receive) now display in the message window
- Updated built in MSN emoticon set to the correct key equivalents

General Performance and Improvements
- Contacts with unviewed content now display in the system menu
- Improved performance of connecting / disconnecting accounts
- Improved dock icon loading performance, preferences performance
- Improved system menu performance
- Improved the stick to edges behavior of the contact list and message window
- Improved behavior of accounts pane in the info window
- Improved network connectivity detection, behavior when waking from sleep and switching networks
- Adium now deletes temporary files on quit

Alerts, Events and Status
- Improved readability of Growl alerts
- Background colors for status and events can now be enabled separately
- Added a Growl Notification for "Message received while in background"
- Added 'New mail received' event
- Added file transfer events to the growl plugin
- Improved behavior of auto-away when idle, away is now automatically removed
- Improved display of status messages with emoticon and link support

Log Viewer
- Added support for searching a single contact's logs by content
- Added support for deleting logs from the log viewer, emoticon display in logs
- Improved log viewer appearance, search feedback, and performance
- Improved display of contact names in the log viewer

Other
- Improved the version checker behavior when a network connection is unavailable
- Improved service menu with dividers and alphabetization
- Improved applescript support
- Updated appearance of info window
- Updated the crash reporter to ignore several harmless errors
- Significant stability and performance improvements

Other Fixes
- Fixed a crash in the notification window for system fonts not supporting bold
- Fixed a crash when a proxy username was entered with the server field left blank
- Fixed a crash when accessing the emoticon menu
- Fixed a crash when adding a contact with no groups defined
- Fixed a crash when adding a send message alert to a group
- Fixed a crash when aliasing a group
- Fixed a crash when attempting to transfer an image over a protocol without support
- Fixed a crash when clicking the status menu duck during launch
- Fixed a crash when closing chat windows
- Fixed a crash when deleting an account
- Fixed a crash when importing omniweb bookmarks
- Fixed a crash when logging in with a proxy server
- Fixed a crash when opening message windows in 10.2 due to message history
- Fixed a crash when resizing a window while it was automatically scrolling to the bottom
- Fixed a crash when the contact list refreshed while being manipulated
- Fixed a crash when typing messages
- Fixed a crash with contact alerts firing as Adium quit
- Fixed a crash with contact list auto-resizing
- Fixed issues with Gaim error message display
- Fixed issues with HTML displaying in request action windows
- Fixed issues with account prefs not updating correctly after being changed
- Fixed issues with alien folders in the log directory confusing the log viewer
- Fixed issues with auto-replies showing up as regular messages to other users
- Fixed issues with chat windows not re-opening on incoming messages
- Fixed issues with chats logging as (null)
- Fixed issues with commas in the last argument of an applescript
- Fixed issues with consecutive spaces not being displayed in messages
- Fixed issues with contacts not leaving the userlist in a chat
- Fixed issues with custom titled links being changed by the auto-linker
- Fixed issues with custom volume being ignored the first time a sound plays
- Fixed issues with dropping files onto the preview conversation in the message preferences
- Fixed issues with entering contact names equal to the max allowed length
- Fixed issues with errors creating xtras folders in application support
- Fixed issues with file transfer via drag and drop onto the message window
- Fixed issues with font preview fields not dispaying the font size
- Fixed issues with group chats showing the wrong status icon in tabs
- Fixed issues with groups displaying a service type in the info window
- Fixed issues with groups not always hiding when empty
- Fixed issues with images displaying upside-down in tooltips and message windows
- Fixed issues with incorrect fonts displaying in the message preferences preview
- Fixed issues with large status icons displaying behind the close button
- Fixed issues with list ordering after a disconnect/reconnect
- Fixed issues with messages not appearing after a date line
- Fixed issues with multiple MSN chats active at once
- Fixed issues with outgoing messages displaying twice in MSN chats
- Fixed issues with preferences opening incorrectly after installing an xtra
- Fixed issues with re-ordering not applying immediately on the contact list
- Fixed issues with removing idle time via applecript
- Fixed issues with scripts in profiles or aways causing a periodic stutter
- Fixed issues with service type being ignored when adding contacts in response to events
- Fixed issues with status changed messages ignoring message view formatting
- Fixed issues with status messages not appearing in some chats
- Fixed issues with tabs drawing incorrectly for group chats
- Fixed issues with the First Message Received event firing for messages besides the first
- Fixed issues with the allowed account name length of Yahoo, .Mac accounts
- Fixed issues with the allowed characters of Novell account names
- Fixed issues with the bookmark toolbar item in text only mode
- Fixed issues with the contact list not sorting correctly
- Fixed issues with the date header appearing in chats with no history
- Fixed issues with the group chat user-list not displaying in certain situations
- Fixed issues with the image picker window displaying icons at the incorrect size
- Fixed issues with the preview conversation being logged
- Fixed issues with tooltips appearing at incorrect times
- Fixed issues with trailing spaces on user names when connecting
- Fixed issues with typing and new content icons not displaying in the window titlebar
- Fixed issues with typing notifications
- Fixed issues with user icons not animating in the info window
- Fixed issues with vertical alignment of status text
- Fixed several major memory leaks

[nooon]

Great!

[RangerJoe]

it's awesome to see all those bug fixes, and then watch it crash within 10 minutes of instsalling it.

but whatever, I love this program!!!

[drainyoo]

Does Adium do file transfers like iChat?

I used to use Adium back in the day and I love the tabs but I need to ability to drag and drop a file into a chat window and send it. Does it do this?

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by drainyoo:
Does Adium do file transfers like iChat?

I used to use Adium back in the day and I love the tabs but I need to ability to drag and drop a file into a chat window and send it. Does it do this?

They're not fully implemented yet. There are still some issues with firewalls and there's little GUI feedback (there's a status message in the message window when a transfer starts and finishes, but that's it). Progress is only available though the OS X console.

You can drag and drop files into the message window to send.

Like I said - it works, but is kinda spotty with firewalls.

[drainyoo]

Kool man thanks. Ill check it out.

Does it just work with other Adium users or with iChat/AIM users as well?

[eevyl]

File transfer in the current barebones state should work with any service that supports file transfer, regardless of the client in use (must support file transfer of course).

[drainyoo]

Is there a way to get bookmarks from a different browser in there? And also set a different browser for the chat window?

[CatOne]

One of the things I really like about iChat (and why I continue to use it for .Mac and AIM) is its integration with Mail... the fact that you can see in Mail.app which users are online. That way if you're about to send someone an email, you can see if they're online, and send them a quick chat instead of it's just a quick question.

No 3rd party service can do that... I'm unsure whether it's something that's accessible through a public API. If it was, I could ditch iChat and have a unified message window, but for no, no.

Good release though... replaced Proteus (which seems to have died since Justin left) as my default "non iChat" client.

[dillerX]

awesome.

[[APi]TheMan]

I think it was about a year ago now when I first found an Adium 2 daily build... I was looking at screenshots of my Mac OS X desktop from 3 years ago and I saw a little Adium icon in the dock (little duck in the bottom left):


Adium rocks, guys. Seriously.

[theJoKell]

Originally posted by CatOne:
One of the things I really like about iChat (and why I continue to use it for .Mac and AIM) is its integration with Mail... the fact that you can see in Mail.app which users are online. That way if you're about to send someone an email, you can see if they're online, and send them a quick chat instead of it's just a quick question.

No 3rd party service can do that... I'm unsure whether it's something that's accessible through a public API. If it was, I could ditch iChat and have a unified message window, but for no, no.

Good release though... replaced Proteus (which seems to have died since Justin left) as my default "non iChat" client.

It's not a public API. This has been mentioned in the Adium forums before and I'm pretty sure the devs have said it will not be implemented. Not unless Apple will release the APIs for it.

[brapper]

LOOK IT'S THE NEW ADIUMX THREAD AT THE TOP OF THE LIST.
LET'S BE COOL AND POST HERE INSTEAD OF THE BICKERING BETA THREAD.

sorry...let's get this one going tho.


Here's a question, once in awhile I get a Adium window popping up asking for my hotmail password, but I never give it and everything remains working normally, so what is it's purpose?

[Zimphire]

Er most people post in the other thread because it was there first. This one is kinda redundant.

[yukon]

The changes don't seem to affect me much. I guess I'll wait on the update. Nice to see it out in non-beta-prerelease form

So current message styles no longer work with the new version? How do I update mine, or where would I get info on it (searched the forums)?

[brapper]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Er most people post in the other thread because it was there first. This one is kinda redundant.

yeah most people did post there because it was there first, but two things:
1. The beta is over for 0.7
2. That thread was becoming annoying when you'd go in thinking there was insight about the newest release to be found, and all you got was people bitching at eachother.

So hopefully, new thread, new attitude.

Also, MSN related - I'm getting generic user pics for the odd user when they're not actually using that pic...by generic I mean those pics which come with MSN, not the green guy thing. Sent feedback.

[Xeo]

Decided to give it a shot. I usually use Proteus for MSN and Yahoo, and iChat for AIM. Adium has come a long way and it looks very nice from the last time I used it. I quit iChat and am now going Adium fill steam ahead. I only care about iChat really for audio and video, and that's so rare that I can just open iChat with my secondary account when I want to do that. I really like the different skins that the buddy list can use. Looks sharp.

[bookofjames]

looks fantastic!

but the file transfer leaves much to be desired.. if only it has progress indicator of some sorts. also doesn't work well with firewalls (which incidentally it seems everyone i know has some form of firewall nowadays).

keep up the good work tho.

[brapper]

Originally posted by bookofjames:
looks fantastic!

but the file transfer leaves much to be desired.. if only it has progress indicator of some sorts. also doesn't work well with firewalls (which incidentally it seems everyone i know has some form of firewall nowadays).

keep up the good work tho.

I know it's not ideal but if you open the OS X console during file transfers it'll give you the progress.

[juanvaldes]

xeo you can connect with the same account multiple times now. So if you need to fire up AV chat there is no need to use another screen name.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by brapper:
I know it's not ideal but if you open the OS X console during file transfers it'll give you the progress.

Heh.. geeky, but not very practical.

Thanks for that info anyhow.

Just how would one do that?

[Xeo]

Originally posted by juanvaldes:
xeo you can connect with the same account multiple times now. So if you need to fire up AV chat there is no need to use another screen name.

Oh that's right. AIM just gives you a message saying it's "logged in at a different location." Do messages go to both clients then?

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Heh.. geeky, but not very practical.

Thanks for that info anyhow.

Just how would one do that?

Do what? Open the console? Open Console.app.

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by Xeo:
Oh that's right. AIM just gives you a message saying it's "logged in at a different location." Do messages go to both clients then?

Yup.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Xeo:
Do what? Open the console? Open Console.app.

[andretan]

How do I rename my groups? All my MSN contacts are thrown into this "Other Contacts" group.

I moved from the "official clients" which really sucked to Fire, then to a previous build of AdiumX and back to Fire... and with 0.7, it's really improved a lot.

Only thing I would want is to create group chats in MSN, now that 0.7 supports MSN user icons.

[Xeo]

Originally posted by Zimphire:

I really have no idea what this means. Was I right about what you meant?

[Zimphire]

I mean when you launch it, does it just show up? Lots of info going on there.

[brapper]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
I mean when you launch it, does it just show up? Lots of info going on there.

yeah it should have lines of info updated every couple of seconds saying the percentage progress of the transfer...

[bookofjames]

is there any support for video conferencing, webcam, etc?

kinda like the yahoo and ichat...

[brapper]

Originally posted by bookofjames:
is there any support for video conferencing, webcam, etc?

kinda like the yahoo and ichat...

not as of right now.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by brapper:
yeah it should have lines of info updated every couple of seconds saying the percentage progress of the transfer...

Ah thanks!

[Zimphire]

I've had it give me a hard time connecting to ICQ lately.

I had it say I was online, but no one on my list could see me either.

Weird.

[monkeybrain]

Does anyone know if/how intergration with font and colour settings for MSN works? I mean, can I set a font and have that shown on the person I'm talking to's messenger? If so, does colour and size work too?

I can't seem to get it to work, which means I have to use aMSN as it does the fonts properly.