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I do not know if this is an acceptable post under the new policies.

I thought I would start a post with ideas on how to get Adium to resemble MSN, ICQ, AIM, iChat, Yahoo!, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, and any other client I have failed to mention. I will start by getting this post going.

MSN Messenger
To get Adium to resemble MSN Messenger, I have put to gether this package that includes other people's works as well as my own. I have given credit where credit is due, but for the most part, I have work on this for some time now. You can download it here http://www.thelouisguy.com/adiumx.



I hope everybody enjoys this package and I look forward to other users input and feedback.

Ain't open source great?

thelouisguy wrote:I do not know if this is an acceptable post under the new policies.

Absolutely acceptable! A quick summary of the new policy is this: search trac before starting a new thread about a bug or a feature request; file such items using trac tickets, bringing such issues into the forums only when necessary (i.e. discussing ramifications of a new feature, polling the audience, etc.) Any sort of general discussion, modification information, etc. is perfectly alright here. Hope that clears it up a bit, and neat mod

evands wrote:... and neat mod

Thanks!
Has anyone else modified Adium in an interesting way? I'd like to see some screen shots of what other users have done. I don't want this to turn into the Adium screenshots in action thread, I just want this to be a place to display the mods people have done

Catfish_Man wrote:Ain't open source great?

Everything should be open source, and yes, open source IS great!

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With the status icons, I have changed the meanings slightly. In MSN, everybody is green with a small icon in front, and you are red if you are offline. I really like the color scheme Adium uses (iChat too). So I decided to respect those colors, and add a small symbol in front of specific (like Out To Lunch) away statuses. I kept them red because they still are technically away. I like the Be Right Back idea that the MSN emoticon uses so I also adapted that to my BRB status icon.

I havent, but I just had a great idea for the next version of that MSN adium.
How about changing the install .dmg directly?

That's a good idea, although...
I like giving people the option to pick and choose what they want to install. Also, I give people the original images too so that if they don't like it, they can easily go back. Plus, I would have to make two versions, one Adium and one Metal Adium (cos I use Metal Adium and I do not know if everyone would want to use that). The way I bundled it is just an easier way to get it around. Although I will see what I can do

Of course, MSN isn't metal yet. But I suppose that's artistic licence.

thelouisguy wrote:That's a good idea, although...
I like giving people the option to pick and choose what they want to install. Also, I give people the original images too so that if they don't like it, they can easily go back. Plus, I would have to make two versions, one Adium and one Metal Adium (cos I use Metal Adium and I do not know if everyone would want to use that). The way I bundled it is just an easier way to get it around. Although I will see what I can do

The thing is that many users don't want so spend time config adium themselfs..... so a out-of-the-box msn adium is a good idea.

Son of a Preacher Man wrote:Of course, MSN isn't metal yet. But I suppose that's artistic licence.

MSN IS metal in v5 out Monday 16

MacCuajo wrote:

Son of a Preacher Man wrote:Of course, MSN isn't metal yet. But I suppose that's artistic licence.

MSN IS metal in v5 out Monday 16

Yeah, but it's not out yet.

MacCuajo: hence the small-but-important "yet" in what I wrote before.

djmori wrote:The thing is that many users don't want so spend time config adium themselfs..... so a out-of-the-box msn adium is a good idea.

Done and done! I have put together two version of MSN Adium. One Aqua version and one Metal version.
On a smaller note, MSN seems to have added a new goat emoticon (nah), so I have updated the emoticon set to include it!

Please let me know what you think everyone

Very much thanks for the emoticons, I've realized that when talking to my MSN contacts they're using lots of emoticons. So I would've gone to the xtras site, but since it's down (and I don't know if there are any emoticonset with all MSN emoticons in it there) I'm glad I found this.

You're welcome. Did anyone else know about the goat? Cos I found out about it by accident. I was on my brother's PC looking thru MSN's .exe file with eXeScope and saw this GOAT image. So I signed in using his computer and sure enough, there it was, a Goat! I copied the picture over to my computer and put it in my emoticon set.
GOAT!!!