Simple Message Style removed, please give it back

joelwyland · Post by **joelwyland** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:23 pm

My favorite thing about Adium is that I could make it so small and unobtrusive. Especially when working on my 12" iBook, screen real estate is important. I loved the clean lines of the Simple Message Style, but that appears to have been removed. If I'm missing something, let me know, but I downgraded to 0.77 because this feature is incredibly important to me.

Kenny

batkinz · Post by **batkinz** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:32 pm

not sure what you mean by simple message style...? but i bet you you could switch to it in adium .80... adium .80 actually has most of the features that are in 0.77... they are just a little more difficult to find...

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:13 pm

batkinz: "Simple" was one of the included Webkit Message View Styles with Adium 0.77. I believe the current plan is to update it to 0.80 and post it on adiumxtras.com.

joelwyland · Post by **joelwyland** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:30 pm

Thanks Catfish Man!

Son of a Preacher Man · Wed May 04, 2005 9:24 pm

I posted it.

http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=1586

I suppose I should update it to v3, that hadn't crossed my mind. I'll do it later...

behooved · Post by **behooved** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:02 pm

thank you for posting an update for this, the simple message layout was the one thing i was missing in the new version of adium!

does anyone know if it's possible to also not join consecutive messages with 0.8 as well?

i liked the way i had it before, with the screen name on the left, and message on the right of EVERY message sent. old school, but the easiest for me to work with.

thanks

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Thu May 05, 2005 5:06 am

I really love the Simplicity theme from v0.77 but the new 0.80 version is missing something that I liked, indenting the secondary messages that are grouped together. Could you bring back the indents? It makes it a lot easier to see the differing groups. Thanks!

Magritte · Post by **Magritte** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:00 am

Xanadu wrote:Could you bring back the indents?

I just posted a comment on the Xtras site but also wanted to mention here -- THIS is what I was looking for, and thank you for posting it! It was also my favorite theme.

I agree on the indents, and would also like the option of putting the timestamp all the way to the right of each message, instead of directly in front of or after the user name. My memory is that the previous theme allowed you to select this, but if I'm wrong, I apologize...and I still request this feature, if possible!

Thanks again, you guys make using this program even better.

Son of a Preacher Man · Fri May 06, 2005 4:05 am

Indents?

Never used the style, I don't know how it used to look. I don't believe I've changed anything about the style that would alter indents... Would you post a screenshot of how it used to look?

Xanadu · Post by **Xanadu** » Fri May 06, 2005 4:55 am

Ummmmmm, I can't read or write

I don't have Adium .77 on anymore, and I'm slow about screenshots anyway, but if you look at the example screenshot for the message style SimpleSeparateLines here http://www.adiumxtras.com/images/pictur ... g_1859.gif
then you will see that the indent with Evan right under the message from Jeff. The way that the original Simple indents were was that the messages were grouped together, but each one after the inital message was intented to that distance. Pretty much a hanging indent for all grouped messages.

I'll be more than happy to textually explain anything else that I can't technologically represent.

Son of a Preacher Man · Fri May 06, 2005 5:07 am

Hmm, ok. I'll fix it tomorrow, but it's 6am here! (election night, heh)