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frankthetank966 · Jan 17, 2007, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by CheesePuff

Love the buddy list groups.

THANKS!!!!

Do you want me to upload it to adium?

JazzCatDRP · Jan 18, 2007, 05:30 PM

I too am having issues with my gmail account showing up as a regular account. And just like biscuit, if I delete it, it comes right back when I restart Adium. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Tipo · Jan 19, 2007, 11:30 AM

I had this problem because I was in my own gmail addressbook... Removing myself from my gmail contacts list (NOTE: not my GTalk buddy list) fixed the problem for me...

biscuit · Jan 22, 2007, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by Tipo

I had this problem because I was in my own gmail addressbook... Removing myself from my gmail contacts list (NOTE: not my GTalk buddy list) fixed the problem for me...

That's fixed it, thanks Tipo.

biscuit

Phil333 · Jan 22, 2007, 02:44 PM

Any idea when 1.0 is going to be officially released? They have been on .89.1 for ever and I don't really feel like playing around with a potentially buggy 1.0.

For those of you who use 1.0, what are the big differences? Is it worth the potential bugs?

Thanks

Catfish_Man · Jan 22, 2007, 02:51 PM

1.0 is basically done. Unfortunately we've been having trouble with our bug tracking system (i.e. it going down like every other day), so we're trying to get that fixed before releasing 1.0rc1.

DuckRacer1 · Jan 22, 2007, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by Phil333

For those of you who use 1.0, what are the big differences? Is it worth the potential bugs?

Thanks

I've been using the beta for months now, and I've experienced no bugs at all.

As for the differences, things just look better, it's better organized, you can see custom smilies using MSN, among many other things I'm probably forgetting...

I'd just install it. If in the very rare case you actually find an earth shattering bug, you can go back to using 0.89.1.

Phil333 · Jan 25, 2007, 06:37 AM

I downloaded 1.0 and it is very cool, thanks for the advice guys. What are the cool features I should be looking out for/searching for? I'm sure there is some really cool stuff in here, I just don't know what it is. I do like the new logs.

Catfish_Man · Jan 25, 2007, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by Phil333

I downloaded 1.0 and it is very cool, thanks for the advice guys. What are the cool features I should be looking out for/searching for? I'm sure there is some really cool stuff in here, I just don't know what it is. I do like the new logs.

One I'm particularly happy with (note: slight bias may exist because I wrote part of this feature

) is in the advanced prefs contact list section; The 'hide on screen edges' checkbox causes the contact list to autohide like the dock.

DuckRacer1 · Jan 25, 2007, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by Catfish_Man

One I'm particularly happy with (note: slight bias may exist because I wrote part of this feature

) is in the advanced prefs contact list section; The 'hide on screen edges' checkbox causes the contact list to autohide like the dock.

Wow, I never knew about that! That's definitely killer.

frankthetank966 · Jan 26, 2007, 10:59 AM

The only issue I have with Adium Beta is file transfering does not work. Any ideas?

Catfish_Man · Jan 26, 2007, 04:24 PM

Depends heavily on 1) what protocol you're using, 2) what program they're using, 3) how you're hooked up to the internet, 4) how they're hooked up to the internet, 5) the phase of the moon. It should be better in the 1.0 betas than in 0.89.1, but it's still not exactly universally reliable.

samsontan · 03:47 PM

i've been facing this over and over again.. everytime time i reboot i mean

The contacts for my groups don't seem to save (like it returns to default) for eg. I insert contact "adam" under Yahoo! but it'll kinda escape and go under individuals or random. But i thought i deleted that group already.. It's like contacts don't stay where i put them in which i last left off. Not all but maybe recent added contacts or other messengers like yahoo, ICQ.. My primary usage would be its MSN.

0.89.1 is my version. help.

instead, should i got for beta 1.0b24 until c is released?

samsontan · Jan 27, 2007, 04:07 PM

i've msn, yahoo, ICQ and gtalk.
1. Is it advisable to have these many Im signed in at once?
2. How do u guys manage your contacts? Like, how would i know which contact belongs to which IM? I need advise on managing it

Hi I'm Ben · Jan 27, 2007, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by samsontan

i've msn, yahoo, ICQ and gtalk.
2. How do u guys manage your contacts? Like, how would i know which contact belongs to which IM? I need advise on managing it

Mine is pretty simplistic...

Active on top, away/idle in the middle, cell phones on the bottom. I have 5 accounts logged into that screen. I don't really care who's on what account or what client they're using. It all looks the same when I talk to them. Of course it tells you what name you're IMing from if you really want to know anyway.

LSK6453 · Jan 27, 2007, 05:03 PM

get the chax installer for ichat and it will be tabbed

OreoCookie · Jan 27, 2007, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Hi I'm Ben

Mine is pretty simplistic...

Active on top, away/idle in the middle, cell phones on the bottom. I have 5 accounts logged into that screen. I don't really care who's on what account or what client they're using. It all looks the same when I talk to them. Of course it tells you what name you're IMing from if you really want to know anyway.

Wow, that one looks great. And I thought my theme was minimalistic

Phil333 · Jan 28, 2007, 10:32 AM

I don't sort by online and away idle because so many people now a days (including myself) keep themselves on away when they are really there. So I just keep my list alphabetical divided into two groups, friends at my current university (studying abroad) and all other friends, college back home, high school, etc. Sorted alphabetically. I'm pretty stingy about my buddy list, I deleted people I don't talk to anymore, so I only have 50 buddies. So the list of people online never exceeds the height of my screen.

I use the bubbles to tell me if they are online/away/idle. Buddies that are idle are slightly greyed out.

And I definitely don't sort by client. Doesn't matter to me if I'm talking to them on AIM or MSN.

Kevin · Feb 2, 2007, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by eevyl

Can't you? Would love to read a more elaborate wish as I don't see why you could not use Adium just as you use iChat ...

It doesn't have the cool "msg bubbles" that pop up when you get a msg.

- - e r i k - - · Feb 2, 2007, 07:56 PM

Yes it does.

frankthetank966 · Feb 3, 2007, 12:38 AM

Did anybody else expect them to release video chat in the Adium X 1.0?

Catfish_Man · Feb 3, 2007, 01:27 AM

Anyone who didn't read our blog posts about it, perhaps

Video is being worked on, but it's a long long process...

frankthetank966 · Feb 3, 2007, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by Catfish_Man

Anyone who didn't read our blog posts about it, perhaps

Video is being worked on, but it's a long long process...

which blog?

crazyjohnson · Feb 3, 2007, 04:17 PM

The Adium blog.

Originally Posted by frankthetank966

which blog?

houstonmacbro · Feb 3, 2007, 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by frankthetank966

Anybody else like Growl?

I've never quite been able to figure out what it is ... exactly.

frankthetank966 · Feb 4, 2007, 02:23 AM

Originally Posted by houstonmacbro

I've never quite been able to figure out what it is ... exactly.

I find it to be a fantastic program. This is what it does. Lets say you have adium minimized or hidden and you are in the middle of a chat, however at the moment you are looking at another program that is in front of adium. Growl is like a pop-up and it has a box that pops up in front of the program you are using teliing you what the instant message says. it is very useful. i will upload a pic later.

Kevin · Feb 5, 2007, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

Yes it does.

I am not talking about the msg style. Growl attempts to fix the problem but does it in a sorta dodgy way.

- - e r i k - - · Feb 5, 2007, 06:43 PM

Growl dodgy? Growl is the best thing since sliced bread. Much better than to have a different style of popups from ever application. It's like the missing system service that should have been built in.

Kevin · Feb 5, 2007, 07:23 PM

Well it doesn't work the way iChat works.

Turias · Feb 5, 2007, 07:41 PM

Congratulations, guys, on the 1.0 release! It's been a long time in the making, but it was definitely worth the wait.

crazyjohnson · Feb 5, 2007, 11:19 PM

Adium is not iChat: it works differently. If you want iChat, then use iChat.

Originally Posted by Kevin

Well it doesn't work the way iChat works.

Tick · Feb 6, 2007, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Growl attempts to fix the problem but does it in a sorta dodgy way.

How exactly is it dodgy?

crazyjohnson · Feb 6, 2007, 01:26 PM

Its different. Certainly not dodgy. I feel like a lot of switchers make similar complaints about OS X in general. Just because something is different does not mean that it is necessarily better/worse.

Originally Posted by Tick

How exactly is it dodgy?

Tick · Feb 6, 2007, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by crazyjohnson

Its different. Certainly not dodgy. I feel like a lot of switchers make similar complaints about OS X in general. Just because something is different does not mean that it is necessarily better/worse.

I guess I'm more curious as to how the person who originally said that it was dodgy actually feels that it's dodgy. "it's not like ichat" doesn't give us something we can work with so that we can try to fix whatever makes it feel "dodgy"

Kevin · Feb 6, 2007, 07:51 PM

I mean not as "smooth"

When you get a msg in iChat a small window popsup telling you who it is from etc. You click on that window and the msg opens up.

I think that is really slick. Growl works similar, but not as slick.

Tick · Feb 6, 2007, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

I mean not as "smooth"

When you get a msg in iChat a small window popsup telling you who it is from etc. You click on that window and the msg opens up.

I think that is really slick. Growl works similar, but not as slick.

A lot of people dislike this in iChat. How is it "slick"?

frankthetank966 · Feb 7, 2007, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by Kevin

I mean not as "smooth"

When you get a msg in iChat a small window popsup telling you who it is from etc. You click on that window and the msg opens up.

I think that is really slick. Growl works similar, but not as slick.

Growl is a "slick" as it gets. If you like iChat than use iChat, but I think Adium has a huge edge over iChat. We have tabbed browsing, you can set up more accounts and there are unlimited things you can do to messages styles and contact list.

DavidC · Feb 8, 2007, 09:59 PM

how come sort contact list manually does not work? I can not drag anyones name around or any groups either.

Visualize · Feb 9, 2007, 06:26 AM

Congratulations on the 1.0 release. I've been using the 1.0betas for a while. One thing that I miss though, and that everyone seems to be missing too, is the support for Personal Messages on the MSN protocol. I know that it all boils down to libgaim. I hope that it will be implemented soon as i'm tired of not having filetransfer capabilities on Jabber with an MSN transport. And custom smileys too of course.

Here's to many more releases from the Adium devs!!

Kevin · Feb 9, 2007, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by Tick

How is it "slick"?

Um, I JUST explained why I thought the features I was talking about was slick. Re-read it.

Kevin · Feb 9, 2007, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by frankthetank966

Growl is a "slick" as it gets.

Unless it doesn't work the way you want it to...

If you like iChat than use iChat, but I think Adium has a huge edge over iChat. We have tabbed browsing, you can set up more accounts and there are unlimited things you can do to messages styles and contact list.

Oh I agree! I've been using Adium for the past 3 or so years. I haven't launched iChat in a awhile.

There is just features in iChat I'd like to see in Adium.

And there is NOTHING wrong with wanting that. No need to get over-denfensive. It's just software.

dwassink · Feb 9, 2007, 12:49 PM

I have three videos on my site highlighting various aspects of Adium, including using Xtras. I also found that Adium has videos themselves. If you are interested in using Adium, some of these may help you as there are a lot of options available for the application.

http://www.livingwithmac.com/software/adium
http://www.adiumx.com/screencasts/

Dan Wassink
http://www.livingwithmac.com

frankthetank966 · Feb 9, 2007, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by dwassink

I have three videos on my site highlighting various aspects of Adium, including using Xtras. I also found that Adium has videos themselves. If you are interested in using Adium, some of these may help you as there are a lot of options available for the application.

Adium | Living with Mac
Adium - Videos

Dan Wassink
Living with Mac | What it's like living with Mac including tips, ideas and reviews

Awesome videos. You basicaly produced "Adium for Dummies."

p.s. I am having issue uploading my contact list to Adium. Anybody know how to upload extras?

DuckRacer1 · Feb 9, 2007, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

Growl dodgy? Growl is the best thing since sliced bread. Much better than to have a different style of popups from ever application. It's like the missing system service that should have been built in.

Speaking of Growl, it doesn't work for me at all. Adium is enabled in the Growl prefpane, I'm using Growl 0.7.6 and Adium 1.0, etc etc... and I have the same problem with other apps too (Safari, App Update, etc), though others work (NewsFire, PandoraBoy, etc).

SLiMeX · Feb 11, 2007, 01:07 AM

Is anyone else experiencing problems with keeping the last (however many) lines of conversation the person you were talking to had in the window when you open it up? The box is checked for me, but it wont do it!

earthlings · 01:47 AM

New to this thread!

I perfer Adium over ichat and over AIM. I've had adium for over a year now.

earthlings · Feb 11, 2007, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by SLiMeX

Is anyone else experiencing problems with keeping the last (however many) lines of conversation the person you were talking to had in the window when you open it up? The box is checked for me, but it wont do it!

I think I've noticed that.

Catfish_Man · Feb 11, 2007, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by SLiMeX

Is anyone else experiencing problems with keeping the last (however many) lines of conversation the person you were talking to had in the window when you open it up? The box is checked for me, but it wont do it!

Message history now draws from the logs, for a number of reasons (not the least of which was that saying logging was off but still storing messages is a very misleading behavior). So if you have logging off, message history won't work. This will be clarified in the UI in a future version (i.e. message history will be grayed out unless you have logging on, and the two checkboxes will be next to each other).

OAW · Feb 22, 2007, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Catfish_Man

Message history now draws from the logs, for a number of reasons (not the least of which was that saying logging was off but still storing messages is a very misleading behavior). So if you have logging off, message history won't work. This will be clarified in the UI in a future version (i.e. message history will be grayed out unless you have logging on, and the two checkboxes will be next to each other).

But isn't the current behavior much more misleading? In my mind I don't consider message history to be a log. Perhaps it is in a strict sense, but I just don't look at it that way. I don't want a permanent log. That's why I have it turned off. However, I do like to have the last 5 to 10 lines of a conversation in message history just to re-establish "context". Now it appears that I can no longer do this. Which is IMO a reduction in functionality.

OAW

Catfish_Man · Feb 22, 2007, 05:32 PM

I agree that it would be nice to be able to do that again, but this separate storage model we had before is just wrong (it caused bugs and performance issues, as well as being misleading in the way I described above). Perhaps an alternative would be to only store the last log file for each user? I'd have to figure out how to avoid cluttering prefs*, but it could work...

*we have too many prefs, so things that add more make me unhappy.