[Turias]

All right, guys, let's keep it civil this time.

Just released today:

Version 0.53 (4/30/2004)
- Added Webkit Message View (6 distinct styles, or create your own! Customizable fonts and backgrounds!) [10.3 only]
- Added "Novell GroupWise" protocol support
- Added "Yahoo! Japan" protocol support
- Added support for custom link titles (Edit->Add Link)
- Added support for message sending via aim:goim URLs
- Added support for placing contact list below all other windows
- Added support for deleting emoticon packs
- Added an 'add contact' menu item for message tabs
- Added the ability to cancel connecting accounts
- Added support for deleting multiple contacts simultaneously
- Added hourly level preferences for message history
- Added custom hyperlink insertion and editing
- Added the ability to add messages sent to offline contacts as alerts
- Added proxy and server connection preferences for "GroupWise," "Trepia," "Gadu-Gadu," and "Napster" protocols
- Updated /music script to work with Internet streams
- Improved the 'Add Contact' window
- Improved appearance of source list gradients
- Improved error handling for all services
- Improved detection of URLs for autolinking
- Improved behavior when reconnecting accounts
- Improved appearance of Password Prompt window
- Cleaned up alert interface in preparation for upcoming changes to 'Get Info' window.
- Cleaned up address book integration advanced preferences
- Cleaned up sound preferences
- Cleaned up contact list name display format preferences (moved to the View menu)
- Fixed several MSN crashes [libgaim]
- Fixed several issues related to tooltips appearing at impropoer times
- Fixed a crash when arranging away messages
- Fixed odd behavior and crashes in Alert window
- Fixed an issue with dropping text on message tabs
- Fixed an issue with apostrophes on Jabber
- Fixed an issue with 'first message received' sounds not playing
- Fixed an issue with the version checker falsly reporting new releases
- Fixed an issue preventing the version checker from saying how old the current version is
- Fixed cosmetic issue with away message menu
- Fixed an issue with the contact list position when a multiscreen configuration changed
- Fixed an issue causing Away autoresponses to be sent in response to other users' autoresponses
- Fixed several memory leaks
- Fixed an SQL Logger crash when opening the preferences
- Fixed an SQL Logger issue with the same screenname on multiple services.
- Fixed a bug with Japanese and Chinese text in the webkit message view
- Scripts, themes, and sounds can be put in all three Library/Application Support folders (Home/L/AS/Adium 2.0, /L/AS/Adium 2.0, and /Network/L/AS/Adium 2.0).
- Scripts, themes, sounds in the Adium application bundle no longer override those in the Application Support folders
- Performance and launch time improvements
- Decreased binary size


I, for one, am amazed at how fast the developers are coding. Keep up the great work, guys!

[gorickey]

Wow, this is good stuff...and it's coming so fast...

[Adam Betts]

Damn, that's an amazing update in such a short time frame.

Those ducks never get tired, does they?

[gorickey]

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
Damn, that's an amazing update in such a short time frame.

Those ducks never get tired, does they?

Adam....still planning an Adium 2 smiley set? Just wondering.

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Adam....still planning an Adium 2 smiley set? Just wondering.

Yeah, they're still on my to-do list. I plan on finishing the set after I'm done with several major projects (mid-May). Needless to say but Adam Iser didn't ask me to do this or anything.. I just want to do a matching set

[yukon]

Crap, did a CVS this morning after some weird stuff happened. Oh well, I guess I get probably all of the new changes, plus heavy optimization ;-)

I'm just happy the URLs over Jabber have been fixed, since tuesday or wednesday, I believe. Those quotes were annoying. AdiumX/Adium2 now does everything Adium 1.6c used to do for me, but it's now over Jabber, and I can connect to many other services, which I do, people from long ago might want to contact me someday.

Hooray for Adium.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
Damn, that's an amazing update in such a short time frame.

Those ducks never get tired, does they?

They certainly don't sleep...

[juanvaldes]

Originally posted by Earth Mk. II:
They certainly don't sleep...

nope

[eevyl]

Little peeks






(the original Smooth Operator by Brad Smith)

[Krypton]

The weekly update seems to be working very well now - i.e. the progress made if both obvious and has direction.

[sushiism]

am i the only one having problems with adium 2 in general when its logging on it doesnt display my contacts until they message me? Also it really needs to wrap long strings of text but its getting better all the time i like the way we can now choose colours of backgrounds and stuff finally

[Turias]

Originally posted by sushiism:
am i the only one having problems with adium 2 in general when its logging on it doesnt display my contacts until they message me?

I haven't had any problems like that. As a general rule, if something seems out-of-whack with an Adium 2 build, delete your preferences, first. It would be way too much work for the developers to make all of the alpha/beta builds have compatible preference files.

[Mike S.]

Is there any time line for when it will reliably support AIM file transfers?

I once got a prompt to receive a file with the previous beta but it didn't work and eventually caused a crash. I'd like to be able to send and I hate logging in with iChat just to do that.

Adium 2 is a really nice product outside of the file transfer issue.

[sushiism]

Originally posted by Turias:
I haven't had any problems like that. As a general rule, if something seems out-of-whack with an Adium 2 build, delete your preferences, first. It would be way too much work for the developers to make all of the alpha/beta builds have compatible preference files.

oh yeah good call, I'll see if that makes it any more solid

[Catfish_Man]

Originally posted by Mike S.:
Is there any time line for when it will reliably support AIM file transfers?

I once got a prompt to receive a file with the previous beta but it didn't work and eventually caused a crash. I'd like to be able to send and I hate logging in with iChat just to do that.

Adium 2 is a really nice product outside of the file transfer issue.

It's a known issue (obviously), but I believe they've said they're fairly dependent on the GAIM developers for this sort of thing. 0.54 should support sending files again though.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
Yeah, they're still on my to-do list. I plan on finishing the set after I'm done with several major projects (mid-May). Needless to say but Adam Iser didn't ask me to do this or anything.. I just want to do a matching set

Sneaky Peek of "Adiumy Smiley" set...

[Zimphire]

It keeps crashing on me whenever I

A: Try to send a file
B: Move someone to a different "List"
C: Add someone to my list.

[Espen Isaksen]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Sneaky Peek of "Adiumy Smiley" set...

Those are pretty cool!

[Turias]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Sneaky Peek of "Adiumy Smiley" set...

hawt

[King Bob On The Cob]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
It keeps crashing on me whenever I

A: Try to send a file
B: Move someone to a different "List"
C: Add someone to my list.

PM me your E-Mail (supply this when asked by the Adium Crash Reporter!) and I'll have the devs look at yours and see what they have to say.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
It keeps crashing on me whenever I

A: Try to send a file
B: Move someone to a different "List"
C: Add someone to my list.

sending in crash reports always helps (even if you don't particularly like/use the app), and, if you could, what protocol were you doing this in when it crashed?

I can't reproduce any of those three right now, using an AIM account in a recent CVS build. Which is not to say they no longer exist at all.

[Zimphire]

Newest version, MUCH BETTER. Using it as my standard client now.

[eevyl]

Glad you like it Zimphire, meanwhile a quickfix release is out:

Version 0.55 (5/8/2004)
- Fixed a crash when connecting to a Yahoo account with privacy settings enabled
- Fixed formatting when sending messages to oneself via MSN
- Fixed a crash when editing links that are in the view at load time
- Fixed emoticon pack loading to ignore empty packs
- Fixed a bug preventing Jabber names with "-" in them from connecting
- Fixed a crash when quitting while a tooltip is visible
- Fixed a bug causing passwords to be cleared unnecessarily, particularly when network errors occurred while connecting
- Disabled dragging web links into the message view
- Added advanced Webkit Message View preferences, which currently allow the customization of the contact name display in the message view.
- Improved menu performance

as usual in http://www.adiumx.com/

[gorickey]

Yeah, 0.55 is by FAR the best yet IMHO...great work!

[songoku912]

Very, very nice. No problems, I can see this kicking iChat to the side for a while

[Zimphire]

Yeah I love the transparent GUI options.

BTW, I like the "Smooth Operator" style but I wish there was a way to get rid of the icons.

It would look like this.



I posted in the Adium forums about it.

http://www.funmac.com/showthread.php?p=60405#post60405

[krove]

I'm not that familiar with the WebKit setup in Adium, but can't you just edit the HTML/CSS stuff to exclude the icons? Or are they placed by default?

[yukon]

you can edit the themes, make your own. it's just HTML and CSS. I made one to invert colours, white text, black and grey background, blue and orange names ;-)

Not sure, I believe it's possible to change text colour without creating a "style" now, it was supposed to be in the latest version, but I haven't seen it....easy to do in HTML however. The icons are removable of course.

[eevyl]

Just a heads up for the MacNN people, the Adium X(tras) site is now live, for all your customization needs of the best IM client out there since messenger birds.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by eevyl:
Just a heads up for the MacNN people, the Adium X(tras) site is now live, for all your customization needs of the best IM client out there since messenger birds.

[jerseyfreeze]

I use Adium at home, but at work I need Rendezvous, so I use Proteus. I cannot wait for the day Adium implements Rendezvous.

-Jason

[Zimphire]

The Adium Extras site is good.

ANd the new .56 build gets even better.

Keep up the good work.

I haven't been so happy about a IM app since Fire first came out with it's "all in one"

[gorickey]

eevyl:

Is there any plans to include a "drop down" emoticon menu from within the message window...like iChat?

Just wondering...

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by gorickey:
eevyl:

Is there any plans to include a "drop down" emoticon menu from within the message window...like iChat?

Just wondering...

right click (or opt-click) on the text view.

it should be there.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by Earth Mk. II:
right click (or opt-click) on the text view.

it should be there.

That's better; however, I must admit I like the way iChat handles this MUCH better than that alternative...thanks though!

[Jowy]

I tried out the newest version just to see how the progress was coming along on it, and I'm very impressed with how far this client has come. Right now there's just one tiny thing that seems to be holding me back from using it more often, and that is the use of a custom sound for a buddy alert. No matter what I seem to do, it doesn't seem to want to take the sound for the alert. If I'm wrong on this, then please let me know.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by gorickey:
Sneaky Peek of "Adiumy Smiley" set...

AdamBetts' site is so secksy... In other news, Adam posted this on the Adiumx website:

In Adium 0.54 we changed the way Adium communicated with its protocol plugins. The change was designed to prevent Adium from becoming unresponsive or beach-balling when the protocol plugin was busy (such as while connecting or disconnecting) and when the internet connection was congested or slow.

Unfortunately these changes caused some users to experience a lot of instability. Adium 0.56 will temporarily go back to the old method of communicating with the protocol plugins. This means that it may feel as if responsiveness has decreased (Especially during heavy traffic or on slow network connections). We hope to resolve the crashes in our new code soon and re-include it for a future release.

I noticed that if I left my computer for the day and came back from school and work, Adium would have been beachballing for nearly half the day (judging from timestamps on message windows left open). Today's .56 is back to normal, though... awesome.

This is just an FYI

[Stradlater]

Originally posted by Jowy:
I tried out the newest version just to see how the progress was coming along on it, and I'm very impressed with how far this client has come. Right now there's just one tiny thing that seems to be holding me back from using it more often, and that is the use of a custom sound for a buddy alert. No matter what I seem to do, it doesn't seem to want to take the sound for the alert. If I'm wrong on this, then please let me know.

Post the bug report on sourceforge or the Adium forums.

[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by gorickey:
That's better; however, I must admit I like the way iChat handles this MUCH better than that alternative...thanks though!

You mean the menu to the right of the text field? I do believe this (or something like it) is planned. It's Brian's baby though, so you'd probably have to ask him for details.

Originally posted by Jowy:
I tried out the newest version just to see how the progress was coming along on it, and I'm very impressed with how far this client has come. Right now there's just one tiny thing that seems to be holding me back from using it more often, and that is the use of a custom sound for a buddy alert. No matter what I seem to do, it doesn't seem to want to take the sound for the alert. If I'm wrong on this, then please let me know.

Yup, this is a known bug. And you can check out the current bug list here, or grab it out of CVS.

[gorickey]

Originally posted by Earth Mk. II:
You mean the menu to the right of the text field? I do believe this (or something like it) is planned. It's Brian's baby though, so you'd probably have to ask him for details.

Yep, that's what I'm talking about...

[Zimphire]

Man, .57 fixed a lot of bugs for me.

Way to go.

[jessejlt]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Man, .57 fixed a lot of bugs for me.

Way to go.

Indeed. Group settings are finally sticking for me, and I can delete contacts, finally! Great build.
jesse ;-)

[Zimphire]

Found one small bug. Seems it might be messing with URLS in yahoo.

[DanMacMan]

How can I adjust the opacity of the chat window like we can do for the contact list window?

[unfaded]

You can't. Yet

[sushiism]

dont think you can anymore dan, I'll miss that when I finally switch over to 2 (might be a while yet I still dont trust parts of it like why sometimes it doesnt highlight what i click in the buddy list)

[gorickey]

No update (v0.58) today?

[pdot]

They're busy with major changes and playing the Warcraft beta.

[Earth Mk. II]

WoW ate Adium 0.58, and now some of the developers are trying to track down the ogre that did it.

We believe he looks like this:




He is also wanted for offensive orders and eating babies. If you have any information on the whereabouts of this ogre, please contact WoWs Most Wanted's Ogre Victim's Unit immediately, at extension x4265.


(apologies to William Steig and ogre's everywhere.)

[jokell82]

Originally posted by pdot:
They're busy with major changes and playing the Warcraft beta.

Yeah i knew there wasn't going to be an updated when I nabbed a CVS copy earlier in the week. It looks like the new status system is being implemented, but it also looks like a slow process. Hopefully they'll be able to put away the games for long enough to update it.