On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Evan Schoenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jun 5, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
Is this a patch that they could make into a plugin to be put onto
the xtras site?
I wouldn't suggest that route to our interested patch writer.
Here's someone who is working on a new feature that they feel the
community at large will benefit from; I don't think they should be
pushed toward doing it Wrong and being able to publish it to a
comparatively small audience versus doing it Right and having it
included in Adium itself.
Is the fact that the login controller is a hack documented anywhere?
I fully agree that the login controller stuff is a hack and
shouldn't be encouraged. In fact, once we have a better alternative
in place for end users, we should #ifdef DEBUG_BUILD the whole
conditional code such that releases never show the option to change
profiles.
What if the Accounts pane had a popup menu at the top, like the
Location: dropdown above the source list in the Network system
preferences? The bottom item of the menu would be the usual "Edit
Profiles" (or whatever word we use to describe sets of accounts).
The Edit Profiles pane, in turn, could link a given profile to a
given Location ("[ ] Automatically activate when in location <-
LOCATION CHOICES->").
In my support experience, drop downs aren't very discoverable, even if
they are "right there. What about a setup more like mail account prefs
or even accounts?
Chris
On Jun 4, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Zachary West wrote:
Hi,
Someone in #adium-devl has been working on something that I've been
hard-lining against, so I figured I'd bring it here for discussion.
His idea is to add network awareness to the login controller (option
when starting Adium), so a user profile is tied to a location.
As a totally not-user-facing and not-supported-in-the-least-bit
feature of Adium, not to mention one that lacks a way to switch
users
without restarting Adium, or any number of problems (total
preference
loss, total log loss, etc, on switching) I've been vehemently
against
accepting any patch that uses the login controller.
I wanted to gauge devel's level of agreement with me. I don't think
any patch which relies on the login controller should be accepted,
and
this is better served as a general "this account in this network",
etc, part of an advanced preference (if at all).
Zac
