um.. basically because (as far as i understand it) adium's message windows use webkit to draw its contents, ie. it's a webpage, the render and redraw speed is quite slow, especially on my iMac G3 400... i've tried to select a simple message style: minimal, with the background turned off, but the redraw speed is still pretty slow, around 2-3 seconds per message, and the more messages in the window the longer it takes to redraw. one example is if someone sends 6 messages in a row (<20 secs) then adium (in whole) would hang for 30-60 secs while redrawing.
rite now i've resorted to closing the window every half an hour or so, or whenever the lag gets irritating, but that means i lose the message history in that window... not much of a problem if adium's log viewer is snappy, but if i open the log viewer it's a 2-4 minute hang (complete with beachball) while adium indexes and displays the logs... which isn't very convenient if i have a conversation going on behind it.
is there anyway i can further cut down on the redraw time? or can the devs make a message style that doesn't use webkit? would that be too hard?
on a related note, whenever something happens in the contact list it's a 2-3 sec wait for it to redraw.. i usually leave it turned off...
other than this, adium is great.. i've yet to get annoyed enuff to use That Other Client
