Option to display iChat audio and video status in Adium

sogood · Post by **sogood** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:17 am

Did a search on this forum but didn't see anything similar.

Just wondering if it's possible to pick up and display the audio/video status of iChat/AIM users. It would be handy to know eventhough Adium won't be able to directly participate in any of those media chats in the short term. The key here is to be able to fire up iChat as the situation dictates.

michael · Post by **michael** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:04 pm

Nah don't think so.

Edit: Far too much work, pretty pointess. You will know their audio and or video status most probably when audio and video ability is implemented.

bobablob · Post by **bobablob** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:33 pm

I am sorry to hear that this is too much work. I agree with the original poster that this would be quite useful. I can't imagine how you could call it pretty much useless. Anyway, keep up the great work, devs!

michael · Post by **michael** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 3:39 pm

Well personally I just think, if ya need to video conference, fire up iChat

, on reflection I do see your point, it would be kinda useful for people who like Adium but switch to iChat to audio a lot, but then you can always just ask the person you're talking to

. However, I really can't see the devs doing this for a while, certainly seems little like no trace of it in .8, although I do remember that "My Webcam" screen in the SVN a few weeks ago, but I would have thought one of the devs would have mentioned it in terms of creating status icons or similar.

sogood · Post by **sogood** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:44 pm

For a second I thought michael was one of the devs. Spoke with such authority on the amount of work required to implement a few status icons.

Gees!

Post by **evands** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 11:49 pm

We have access to capabilities information over AIM though we don't make use of it... it's 99% useless, and would very misleading to most users to see "Capabilities: Voice Chat" and then have no way within Adium to actually initiate or accept the voice chat.

michael · Post by **michael** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:17 am

evands wrote:We have access to capabilities information over AIM though we don't make use of it... it's 99% useless, and would very misleading to most users to see "Capabilities: Voice Chat" and then have no way within Adium to actually initiate or accept the voice chat.

Yeah my thoughts exactly, considering you had access to the whole mobile thing for ages but the mobile string only just came in on the status packs thingy it seems like the sorta thing that isn't gonna be around for a while.

sogood · Post by **sogood** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 1:45 am

evands wrote:We have access to capabilities information over AIM though we don't make use of it... it's 99% useless, and would very misleading to most users to see "Capabilities: Voice Chat" and then have no way within Adium to actually initiate or accept the voice chat.

Thanks for the response.

And just because it may mislead some users, maybe entering it as an option would be appropriate. It's just another one of those functional fine points that's treasured by some but useless and meaningless to others.