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proxyma · May 30, 2003, 07:24 PM

Hey,

I love iChat, if you could do better, do it.
(iChat i used by more than 90% of Mac AIM chaters)
But i would prefer you to increase iChat.

Anyway, you can take a look to the iChat X heading of iCM :

http://ichatmasters.free.fr/

ambush · May 30, 2003, 07:49 PM

Originally posted by proxyma:
Hey,

I love iChat, if you could do better, do it.
(iChat i used by more than 90% of Mac AIM chaters)
But i would prefer you to increase iChat.

Anyway, you can take a look to the iChat X heading of iCM :

http://ichatmasters.free.fr/

From ichamasters Imagine a freeware which loads itself in the menubar and work in background, that allows to see how many participants are in a room and who they are without having to join the room!

pahroza · May 31, 2003, 11:31 AM

One word:

Encryption

mmontano · May 31, 2003, 01:17 PM

IM features I'd love & need.

- proper proxy support (i.e. the preferences panel, UNLIKE iChat)
- iChat 'icons' (surprisingly nice upgrade)
- offline messaging (likely server specific though)
- proper (and clean) integration with Address Book, unlike iChat
- good use of dock icon for information (most seem to do this well)
- .mac, AIM, MSN, Yahoo compatibility

That's my list.

Matthew

ntsc · May 31, 2003, 01:30 PM

make something that can handle MSN chats with more than two people and i'll use it

Krypton · May 31, 2003, 01:49 PM

Originally posted by ntsc:
make something that can handle MSN chats with more than two people and i'll use it

Definitely - that's the one thing Fire and Proteus can't do. Plus being reliable and not disconnecting from a service without telling the user would be nice <cough> Proteus </cough>

bararum · Jun 1, 2003, 07:11 PM

main thing would be fast and memory effiicient. File transfer would be nice too, and tabbed convos; basically take adium, add a few features and multiprotocol and BAM that's what i want

ambush · Jun 1, 2003, 08:31 PM

I'm pretty sure Adium2's plug-in architecture supports multiprotocol.

Adam Iser is being pretty quiet about Adium2, but I'm sure it's going to be the best IM app out there when it comes out.

IronPen · Jun 1, 2003, 08:55 PM

I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Adium 2. Will it EVER get here!

ambush · Jun 1, 2003, 09:13 PM

Originally posted by IronPen:
I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Adium 2. Will it EVER get here!

You can build it from CVS right now. It's usable.

bararum · Jun 1, 2003, 10:24 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
I'm pretty sure Adium2's plug-in architecture supports multiprotocol.

Adam Iser is being pretty quiet about Adium2, but I'm sure it's going to be the best IM app out there when it comes out.

that was my theory too, much like miranda does on the windows side. But it's just taking a while to become official, and until then the CVS stuff does not have those plugins as far as i know, so I'm impatient

CarbonG4 · Jun 2, 2003, 01:11 AM

Not sure if this was mentioned here already or not but some developer just needs to work his mojo on creating a custom .nib for iChat that gives iChat a dual-window mode like Adium -- separate buddylist and one window w/ tabs for each conversation. That would be nice.

//Carbon