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bgannin wrote:

Yazan wrote:Yeah would probably work, but youd have to be up to date on what it looks like everytime you change the adiumy.

That's not what's being suggested.

The suggestion is to create a specific duck that looks like AIM's walking dude, MSN's "penguin on crack", etc. The point isn't to dynamically match the currently set Dock icon.

Wait, the EMD's AI isn't going to draw for us?

Ah, ok.

Got it.
Thats a good Idea actually.

But it wouldnt matter anyway since 0.8 will include a way to customize service icons.

Great I love this idea!!!

About the official release icon with this version is a very important one.
The person that will make the images, has a lot on his back in a way that
Those service icons will decide how perfect the default service icons will be.

I wish I can put my idea on it. Making the service icons.
Let me give you guys a example.
Trillian service icons. They are simple, That for me I need to change them. They are just circle with colors. That is very boring for me as a default service icons.
You guys have a great offical DUCK!! I love that idea. Go with that...

just my 2 cent toughts. For anything pls contact me

thanks
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edit: Will the service icons have states? Away. idle ect??

Little_Tiger wrote:edit: Will the service icons have states? Away. idle ect??

Service icons and status icons are two different things. In the development version, they're used side by side to indicate the status of accounts in the EMD and the regular menu. So no, they wouldn't have different states since that's handled by status icons (unless the devs change things dramatically).

I'd actually done somehing similar beforehand and used the image found here.



to replace the msn icon and Trillian's jabber icon:

similar to that but it's pinkish. That particular msn icon might not be coprighted, though I'm only guessing.

nanovivid wrote:

Little_Tiger wrote:edit: Will the service icons have states? Away. idle ect??

Service icons and status icons are two different things. In the development version, they're used side by side to indicate the status of accounts in the EMD and the regular menu. So no, they wouldn't have different states since that's handled by status icons (unless the devs change things dramatically).

You're right!
But a what I want is, is what I talked about. I prefer that the "service" icons show me the away states ect. But again who am I to say :d..

thanks
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Little_Tiger wrote:But a what I want is, is what I talked about. I prefer that the "service" icons show me the away states ect. But again who am I to say :d..

Ah, I see. I was confused as to what you were saying. I kind of doubt that the service icons will become status icons as well, but I guess it could happen. This is where one of the devs needs to jump in and say yes, no, or maybe...

Most no,Adium is far already with what they choose for showing the satus..to change it ..is not a most..

it just what I would do...to have less icon taking up space
thanks
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It would seem to me you are requesting we exactly copy Proteus' look.

bgannin wrote:It would seem to me you are requesting we exactly copy Proteus' look.

haha, not really, it's a personal taste. I should not be done!
But I'm someone that love "minimalistic" so that is why

thanks
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melon wrote:I'd actually done somehing similar beforehand and used the image found here.



to replace the msn icon and Trillian's jabber icon:

similar to that but it's pinkish. That particular msn icon might not be coprighted, though I'm only guessing.

Thats nice!

Request:
Uncertain if this conflicts with copyrights and trademarks, anyway...

Is it possible to make the status-icons to be the orginal app's icons. E.g if I have a couple of ICQ users, the I would like to have the flower to the far left, and when someone is idling it changes to the flower with the blank note on it. Same for MSN etc.

Instead of the iChat light bulbs.

Can I do this myself by hacking resources?

This is what I would like it to look like:

You can do that .. but I doubt u could do the away on the ICQ cause I dont know if theres a default image on idle, unless im mistaken, Ill look into it and see what I can do for you.

The Idle image resides in /Applications/Adium.app/Contents/Resources/Status Icons/Gems.AdiumStatusIcons/Idle.png

Something like that anyways

Yazan wrote:You can do that .. but I doubt u could do the away on the ICQ cause I dont know if theres a default image on idle, unless im mistaken, Ill look into it and see what I can do for you.

You are very kind

Ok, I think I know what has to be done...

If Adium has different folder for status icons for the different IM clients it's no problem at all to do what I want (see post above). Then you just have to replace the icons with original IM client's icon, keeping the same filename.

Where can one find differents IM clients icons in PNG format? Can't find ICQ's and MSN's inside their packages...

Another thing, Away/Idle seems to be different for MSN and ICQ...? ICQ's "Not Available" doesn't seem to have an equivalent, or?

superjunior wrote:If Adium has different folder for status icons for the different IM clients it's no problem at all to do what I want (see post above). Then you just have to replace the icons with original IM client's icon, keeping the same filename.

Unfortunately for what you want to do, Adium's status icons don't work that way. There's only a single set for all types of accounts. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

ICQ's "not available" can be compared to "away"