Any ideas on how to make an 'icon only' contact list?

atomicdog · Post by **atomicdog** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:07 am

I tend to take pictures of my friends and then put those images into the address book picture position.

I like having Adium take those pictures instead of the buddy icons. As such, having the name next to the actual pictures of my frieds seems redundant. I am trying to figure out the best way to only display the images of my friends in the contact list.

Right now, I simply limit the horizontal 'maximum width' of the contact list. (under the appearances preferences) But there is a problem between what I want, and how adium treats the 'maximum width' -- it includes the scroll bar with that width.

So, when I set "maximum width' to 46 pixels and have icons that are 46 pixels, anytime there are more icons online than fit onto my screen, the scroll bar appears, blocking out some of the images. It just doesn't look as cool that way, at least in my opinion. Conversley, if I set the 'maximum width' to 46 pixels, but have the list layout buddy icons at 41, then the scroll bar is perfect when there are many people online. But when there are not enough people online, then I get about 5 pixels of the info on the right, and that is enough to display the first letter of the person's name or something.

That said, this is only a problem because I can't think of another way to configure it. Does anyone have ideas on how else I could tweak the settings?

I'll attach the picture of what the current set up looks like, and maybe it will inspire someone to let me know what I could do to fix it.

Thanks!

sopu · Post by **sopu** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:00 am

Have a look at these xtras:

http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=804

http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=788

http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=x ... ra_id=1302

http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=x ... ra_id=1071

Hope that's what you were searching for!

atomicdog · Post by **atomicdog** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:36 am

thanks, but sadly, all those were created before adium .82. the program now treats the scroll bar differently, so those suffer the same problem I'm having

Theow593 · Post by **Theow593** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:05 am

Like mine?

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:59 am

Pimpin'

Kiel

Githon · Post by **Githon** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:30 pm

Arenzera wrote:Pimpin'

Moreso since they're all women.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:31 pm

Theow593 wrote:

Like mine?

those people look scary

.

djmori · Post by **djmori** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:27 pm

Go w/ bubbles

atomicdog · Post by **atomicdog** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:07 pm

Theow593 wrote:

Like mine?

That looks good. When your contact list exceeds the height of your screen, where does the scroll bar appear?

Theow593 · Post by **Theow593** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:36 pm

I never have that many people on at once. It would be on the right though. If it's too big/small, adjust the user icons size and the width. Right now I have my icons at 66 pixels, and the width at 89.