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That's not exactly true. You can still charge for a GPL'd product (example: X-Chat Windows).

You got it absolutely right, Brian. I posted a screenshot of what I have so far. I plan to have it grab the tab status icons (and get rid of that nasty hardcoded alert image).

F12? On my machine, that's the eject button

http://www.fourx.org/images/emd-open-conversations.jpg Here's what I have right now in current svn. The reason we don't grab icons for anything really (that bubble with the question mark is just a copy of the file in the default status pack) is because the API for it isn't very clean at all. I'm go...

Anyway, isn't all this getting scrapped (fairly?) soon down the line when we re-think the way status is done in Adium?

Ah, so this was what we were talking about. Simliar setup to the UberWindowPlugin ?

Oh? Really? I haven't dug into this yet. If it is, well, that's fantastic I think Evan mentioned something like that when we talked about it.

I really don't know how good of an idea this is. You could invoke Expose for another reason and not even notice the new message.

Also the "well, as long as it's off by default" attitude can lead to a lot of bloat

Aww, that's too bad. He's a cool guy

If this ever happens, the edit button will get my vote

jdang: Let's take this slow First, I want to get that compositing working. One thing at a time.

While the "Halo mode" looks cool, it's not a very descriptive name. A preview mode will need to be devised.

This is one of the reasons I wanted to keep the number of options at a minimum.

That sounds like a much more feasible solution to me. Anyone else care to weigh in? Adam, Evan, et al ?

Just a *random* question but did you know Matthew Trentacoste while at CMU? He graduated last year from the undergrad program in CS.

We've already got stuff like that

That would be a bad idea. How quickly would we send updates to the server, for instance? There's no good way to know when a user is done editing.

Yes, that would be most excellent. If you just made 'em one color, I could easily do compositing :) Would make all this customization possible. Then I could play around with different amounts of options and see what's practical. The "Halo" mode would basically just be some extra pngs :) We...

I'm not sure what I was planning would get QUITE that involved, but I would really like to be able to see all my contacts at the same time.

That changes nothing. In fact that makes it worse, since they're endangered (I think).

Can you say NSArrayController?