Leopard expose and Adium....

saury316 · Post by **saury316** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:01 pm

In Adium, I had set it to be on the background, and if I used expose to view my desktop, I could see adium part of the desktop, and click on contacts. This was awesome.

But in Leopard, if I still have it set as on Desktop, and do the same thing on Expose, Adium moves offscreen as well!!

cheesy · Post by **cheesy** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:57 pm

In what I suspect is a related problem, I can't seem to make my contact list sticky across multiple desktops using spaces; It works fine for the message window but the contact list remains on a single desktop

Skade · Post by **Skade** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:01 pm

cheesy wrote:In what I suspect is a related problem, I can't seem to make my contact list sticky across multiple desktops using spaces; It works fine for the message window but the contact list remains on a single desktop

Interesting - i'm experiencing something similar, but the other way around:

My contact list remains on every desktop, but not messaging window is bound to one specific.

hollerz · Post by **hollerz** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:33 pm

Skade wrote:
cheesy wrote:In what I suspect is a related problem, I can't seem to make my contact list sticky across multiple desktops using spaces; It works fine for the message window but the contact list remains on a single desktop
Interesting - i'm experiencing something similar, but the other way around:

My contact list remains on every desktop, but not messaging window is bound to one specific.

Yeah mine is the same as this! Means Spaces is turned off for me atm.

cheesy · Post by **cheesy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:58 pm

I found a ticket about this in trac, to which I added some details of my investigations:

http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/7862

The bad news is that the devs think it's a leopard problem. Based on what I saw, I think the problem may actually lie with adium's tab implementation but if I'm wrong (or the devs disagree), I think there's essentially no chance this will be fixed.

cheesy · Post by **cheesy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:00 pm

Wow, the devs are FAST; They updated the ticket about 10 mins after me and it looks like they're going to look at it!

Post by **zac** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:15 pm

The above ticket and the problems described therein were fixed today.

cheesy · Post by **cheesy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:31 pm

Wow, talk about turn around! Go the Adium devs...

saury316 · Post by **saury316** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 3:17 am

to sort of move this topic back to the intial complaint I had.

Adium 1.1.4 :- In a clean install of Leopard if Adium is set as Behind Window in Advanced in Preferences, and using Expose, I do Show Desktop, Adium slides to the side with all my other windows.

Adium 1.0.4 :- In in a clean install of Leopard if Adium is set as Behind Window in Advanced in Preferences, and using Expose, I do Show Desktop, Adium stays on the desktop while all the other windows move to the sides.

The functionality in 1.0.4 is good. It allows me to quickly see Adium and send an IM even if I have a bunch of windows open.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:10 am

saury316 wrote:to sort of move this topic back to the intial complaint I had.

Adium 1.1.4 :- In a clean install of Leopard if Adium is set as Behind Window in Advanced in Preferences, and using Expose, I do Show Desktop, Adium slides to the side with all my other windows.

Adium 1.0.4 :- In in a clean install of Leopard if Adium is set as Behind Window in Advanced in Preferences, and using Expose, I do Show Desktop, Adium stays on the desktop while all the other windows move to the sides.

The functionality in 1.0.4 is good. It allows me to quickly see Adium and send an IM even if I have a bunch of windows open.

The way we did this was never supported by Apple, and has been changed in 10.5. Unless we can work out a new way to do it, it won't be returning, since it breaks things.