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John Don · Post by **John Don** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:23 am

Rita wrote:Oh, trust me, I was just as confused until I heard that explanation. Just providin' an explanation is all.

That's cool. I hadn't ever thought of it from that perspective before. I guess it just all depends on what perspective you are coming from.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:10 am

I went to change this for 1.0, and it looks like somebody already did

It's now "Adium version [newversion] is available for download. Would you like more information on this update?"

Post by **evands** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:17 pm

*nod* I'd like to see it improved even further to include a toggle to display the most recent changelog and the ability to download, install, restart automagically.

John Don · Post by **John Don** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 3:39 pm

Catfish_Man wrote:I went to change this for 1.0, and it looks like somebody already did It's now "Adium version [newversion] is available for download. Would you like more information on this update?"

I like this a lot. No possibility of confusion whatsoever.

evands wrote:*nod* I'd like to see it improved even further to include a toggle to display the most recent changelog and the ability to download, install, restart automagically.

I also like this a lot. If Adium X could incorporate Catfish_Man's changes and Evands' suggestions (especially displaying the changelog), I think that would pretty much make the Update Notfication perfect.

Rita · Post by **Rita** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:37 pm

evands wrote:automagically

Well, I'm sure most of us already think you guys are magicians, so I'm sure this would be possible.

samuryan · Post by **samuryan** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:00 pm

Rita wrote:
evands wrote:automagically
Well, I'm sure most of us already think you guys are magicians, so I'm sure this would be possible.

awww i was going to comment on the word automagically

oh well. instead ill just say that adium rox lol

MacMom · Post by **MacMom** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:48 am

The_Tick wrote:I guess I never thought that the dialogue was confusing. It's english

If it makes you feel any better, I was never confused.

Post by **cbarrett** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:37 am

Rita wrote:
evands wrote:automagically
Well, I'm sure most of us already think you guys are magicians, so I'm sure this would be possible.

Just FYI, automagically is a fairly common programmer term. From the Jargon File (http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/automagically.html):

Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an executable.”

This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.

Also, re: this whole thread, I complained about this originally, but nobody really did anything about it, and I didn't feel like changing it if nobody else was complaining. I agree that being all Quicksilver/Textmate-y and doing auto-updates is the best way. Also, a sheet for the changelog is what first comes to mind. Although a disclosure triangle complete with swooshing and zooming would be sexy. And Adium is all about the sexy

samuryan · Post by **samuryan** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:02 pm

cbarrett wrote:And Adium is all about the sexy

i second that!