Favorite Undocumented Features

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:48 am

evands wrote:we natively support Proteus emoticon packs and nobody knows it?

NOoooOoo, the secret is out!

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:43 am

Click on the duck in the Get Info… dialog…

It squaks and then quacks every 5 or something.

Pressing option while in the Get Info… dialog makes the scrolling go backward

Uselessness!

carlj7 · Post by **carlj7** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:48 am

I think if Adium wants to compete in today's software market, it needs more secret functions like the popular applications "Real Player" and "Kazaa." For example, Adium could secretly send a copy of your friend's email addresses to the Adium developers-- for safe keeping in case of a crash. Similarly, Adium could back up your conversation logs in a centralized server.

Another good function would be, if NO KEY was held down on launch, Adium would look through keychain, find your credit card number and transfer $1,000 to the devs, so as to improve the next version of Adium. Can't we all agree that Adium would be much better if it had been created on Gold Plated G5s with Diamond insets?

Post by **evands** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:13 am

carlj7 wrote:I think if Adium wants to compete in today's software market, it needs more secret functions like the popular applications "Real Player" and "Kazaa." For example, Adium could secretly send a copy of your friend's email addresses to the Adium developers-- for safe keeping in case of a crash. Similarly, Adium could back up your conversation logs in a centralized server.

If I got any _more_ email addresses because of Adium, Mail.app would explode

Can't we all agree that Adium would be much better if it had been created on Gold Plated G5s with Diamond insets?

I certainly can. Please code and submit a patch to enable this behavior... it'd speed development 5,400,394 fold, according to current calculations by the resident advanced math geeks.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:41 am

evands wrote:
carlj7 wrote:I think if Adium wants to compete in today's software market, it needs more secret functions like the popular applications "Real Player" and "Kazaa." For example, Adium could secretly send a copy of your friend's email addresses to the Adium developers-- for safe keeping in case of a crash. Similarly, Adium could back up your conversation logs in a centralized server.
If I got any _more_ email addresses because of Adium, Mail.app would explode

Can't we all agree that Adium would be much better if it had been created on Gold Plated G5s with Diamond insets?
I certainly can. Please code and submit a patch to enable this behavior... it'd speed development 5,400,394 fold, according to current calculations by the resident advanced math geeks.

Uh, oh! But…

GPL stops you from doing that! That's like charging for the program, and it's against GPL…

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:56 am

zaudragon wrote:
evands wrote:
carlj7 wrote:I think if Adium wants to compete in today's software market, it needs more secret functions like the popular applications "Real Player" and "Kazaa." For example, Adium could secretly send a copy of your friend's email addresses to the Adium developers-- for safe keeping in case of a crash. Similarly, Adium could back up your conversation logs in a centralized server.
If I got any _more_ email addresses because of Adium, Mail.app would explode

Can't we all agree that Adium would be much better if it had been created on Gold Plated G5s with Diamond insets?
I certainly can. Please code and submit a patch to enable this behavior... it'd speed development 5,400,394 fold, according to current calculations by the resident advanced math geeks.
Uh, oh! But…

GPL stops you from doing that! That's like charging for the program, and it's against GPL…

Actually, you can charge for gpl software. For the distribution of the software specifically, I do believe.

Post by **evands** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:45 pm

The_Tick wrote:
zaudragon wrote:
evands wrote: If I got any _more_ email addresses because of Adium, Mail.app would explode
I certainly can. Please code and submit a patch to enable this behavior... it'd speed development 5,400,394 fold, according to current calculations by the resident advanced math geeks.
Uh, oh! But…

GPL stops you from doing that! That's like charging for the program, and it's against GPL…
Actually, you can charge for gpl software. For the distribution of the software specifically, I do believe.

My understanding is that you can charge for distribution and for support, but the source to the program has to be remain available free of charge (and I think the moral way to understand that is that you can't charge for source code distribution, either).

Chris Biagini · Post by **Chris Biagini** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:06 pm

evands wrote:My understanding is that you can charge for distribution and for support, but the source to the program has to be remain available free of charge (and I think the moral way to understand that is that you can't charge for source code distribution, either).

Yeah, looks that way. Check out the GPL FAQ. FYI.

lordoftheoats · Post by **lordoftheoats** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:15 pm

Tipo 61 wrote:hmm, Mine would have to be holding down 'option' during startup, to choose which user you are

That would be one of mine, as well. I've heard that this was going to be dropped. I kindly request that the devs refrain from doing this for as long as possible (as long as it does not negatively affect another feature), as it is very useful.

Post by **evands** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:39 pm

lordoftheoats wrote:
Tipo 61 wrote:hmm, Mine would have to be holding down 'option' during startup, to choose which user you are
That would be one of mine, as well. I've heard that this was going to be dropped. I kindly request that the devs refrain from doing this for as long as possible (as long as it does not negatively affect another feature), as it is very useful.

The only reason it'd be removed is to simply the path to the preferences... which I think is a bit of an unnecessary thing to worry about. Wouldn't expect to see it go away any time soon

Tipo 61 · Post by **Tipo 61** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:14 pm

evands wrote: The only reason it'd be removed is to simply the path to the preferences... which I think is a bit of an unnecessary thing to worry about. Wouldn't expect to see it go away any time soon

Yay

lordoftheoats · Post by **lordoftheoats** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:26 pm

evands wrote:Wouldn't expect to see it go away any time soon

Awesome stuff. Thanks again for all the work you guys have done.

Perez · Post by **Perez** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:29 am

In addition to other LaTeX coolness, I'm also a fan of being able to click on the equation after sending it to make it turn back into text.

...and I'm a ctl-s person, myself.

shurmanter · Post by **shurmanter** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 5:48 am

Perez wrote:In addition to other LaTeX coolness, I'm also a fan of being able to click on the equation after sending it to make it turn back into text.

...and I'm a ctl-s person, myself.

You can do the same thing with emoticons.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:47 am

shurmanter wrote:
Perez wrote:In addition to other LaTeX coolness, I'm also a fan of being able to click on the equation after sending it to make it turn back into text.

...and I'm a ctl-s person, myself.
You can do the same thing with emoticons.

freakman just found that by clicking everywhere

He found it a while back… January?