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If I have an unviewed IM, and my buddy is typing a new IM, can the contact list flash blue (unviewed IM) and orange *buddy is typing) instead of blue and white? These are the default colors for Adium (white is an active buddy). Thanks!

I think you can change the color of the unviewed content and the typing in the contact list color preferences

This is true. But I think if I have an unviewed message and my buddy is still typing, his or her name should flash blue and orange instead of blue and white. This isn't something I can do, it needs to be changed in the main code.

How about we just remove flashing altogether? As a user aptly said to me the other day, <blink> is so 1990s.

Please don't, I love flashing on new messages.... Otherwise it wouldn't attract my attention.

-- SirG3

SirG3 wrote:Please don't, I love flashing on new messages.... Otherwise it wouldn't attract my attention.

-- SirG3

For emphasis

<blink> is horrendous. contact list flashing is not. keep it, please.

evands wrote:How about we just remove flashing altogether? As a user aptly said to me the other day, <blink> is so 1990s.

Rather than getting rid of it altogether, how about making it more of a pulse than a blink? You know, with nifty Quartz-ish fading. It'll still get your attention, but with a little more style.

Just my two cents.

Chris Biagini wrote:Rather than getting rid of it altogether, how about making it more of a pulse than a blink? You know, with nifty Quartz-ish fading. It'll still get your attention, but with a little more style.

It seems cool, but I worry the other thing that might get your attention about that would be your computer grinding down to a halt. That was what I disliked about iChat on my old G3-- the transparent message bubbles took forever to pop up and then open when clicked on.

As the To-Do list says, we really need to make it so that you can run Adium with no blinking. Maybe not remove the capability entirely, but be able to turn it off. I'd love that.

Gah, please no animations (or please, check if it can use QE before using animations?)

-- SirG3

SirG3 wrote:Gah, please no animations (or please, check if it can use QE before using animations?)

-- SirG3

QE wouldn't help. Q2DE would, but that's a new feature in 10.4

I know, I was just saying using that as a cutoff for animations.

-- SirG3

I've a paper due tomorrow.

Therefore I'm almost done implementing both a preference to turn off the flashing and the enhancement to flash between the current status/whatever color and the unviewed content color.

evands wrote:I've a paper due tomorrow.

Therefore I'm almost done implementing both a preference to turn off the flashing and the enhancement to flash between the current status/whatever color and the unviewed content color.

...I'll never understand the way you code...

... Which is not to say that we don't like how you code!

dchoby98 wrote:... Which is not to say that we don't like how you code!

Oh, definitely keep it up It's always fun to watch 10-20 commits in the space of a few minutes and realize that some spiffy major new feature(s) just appeared... and then see another huge change a few days later. It raises questions about the flammability of keyboards though

evands wrote:I've a paper due tomorrow.

Therefore I'm almost done implementing both a preference to turn off the flashing and the enhancement to flash between the current status/whatever color and the unviewed content color.

Hehe. Procrastination, Thief of Time.

That's brilliant, thanks Evan.