Thanks for that gadget link! That should help ease some of my frustration. I guess I'll just wait until Google works out the chat issues to really try to develop for chat. It really does look like they're trying to make it like facebook.
On Oct 22, 4:46 pm, Mike Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run into those same issues and was able to get by the updating > issue by using the theme manager gadget > here:http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=gad.getpla.net/th.... > Clearing the cache on the theme seems to make the chat thing update > more quickly. You have to go into the preferences and set it to > developer mode. > > The colors on the buttons are a problem. I don't see any way to > change those from the api documentation. I think the chat box was > considered too buggy even for the public beta. Outside the sandbox, > it doesn't appear for me. Even when it works, I can't quite figure > out what the intended workflow might be. It seems strange that the > chat thing would be in a homepage because I don't tend to remain > located on the home page all day long, but I would like to receive > chats from people that are trying to talk to me. Maybe it has > something to do with what Google is doing in the social network area > and some other things are going to plug into it. Just speculating at > this point. > > On Oct 22, 4:28 pm, randomnote1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am attempting to update my theme to utilize the new features that > > were implemented in the new iGoogle page. I got everything working > > well except for the chat portion. > > > Every time I make a change to my xml file and test it, it takes a long > > period of time for the chat portion to reflect the change I've made. > > For example, I changed the navbar.contacts.hover_background_color > > value last night, and it did not update until this morning. All the > > other values except for the chat values update immediately. > > > Another issue I'm running into is hovering over contacts and the two > > links at the bottom of the chat interface (Options and friends). > > There is no value (that I've been able to find) that allows the color > > of the link itself to change when you hover over it. I don't know if > > this a new iGoogle flaw, or I'm and idiot that can't find the correct > > value to change. > > > Anyway, if anybody has run into these issues as well, please let me > > know. > > > Thanks! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Themes API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-themes-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
