Checking to see who reads your away messages/profile??

jenkijon383 · Post by **jenkijon383** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:04 am

Is there a way to see who is reading your away messages/profile? Seems like a simple thing, but i can't find any add-ons which perform this task.

any help would be appreciated!

-Jon

aptenergy · Post by **aptenergy** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:10 am

Can you do this in other IM programs? AFAIK there's never been a way to do this in any application; I don't think AOL, for instance, provides that information.

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:05 pm

Besides, this would be very misleading. Almost every client allows you to see the away message by hovering over the contact, so every time the list is updated would probably be counted as viewing the away message.

honigbaer · Post by **honigbaer** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:08 pm

miranda im does that

mgiannul · Post by **mgiannul** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:13 pm

honigbaer wrote:miranda im does that

http://addons.miranda-im.org/details.ph ... ile&id=360

That's the plugin that allows for that feature on miranda. No idea how it works, though. Maybe one of the dev's can take a look at it..

Post by **evands** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:39 pm

That's just the plugin; someone interested in implementing this would need the source code to find out what it's doing. Contact the author of the plugin and see if they're willing to license their source code under the GPL or another open source license

honigbaer · Post by **honigbaer** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:27 am

yeah, we should do that. but first my contacts need to be able to read my status message at all. that's still a problem noone actually cares about as a far as i can see.

TheSilverFox06 · Post by **TheSilverFox06** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:30 am

honigbaer wrote:yeah, we should do that. but first my contacts need to be able to read my status message at all. that's still a problem noone actually cares about as a far as i can see.

What's the number of the ticket you filed about this?

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:31 am

honigbaer wrote:yeah, we should do that. but first my contacts need to be able to read my status message at all. that's still a problem noone actually cares about as a far as i can see.

Don't be ridiculous. We have something like 800 open bug reports, and protocol issues are often very hard to fix (as well as not actually being coded by the Adium team...).

End result: stuff sometimes takes a while

honigbaer · Post by **honigbaer** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:19 am

TheSilverFox06 wrote:
honigbaer wrote:yeah, we should do that. but first my contacts need to be able to read my status message at all. that's still a problem noone actually cares about as a far as i can see.
What's the number of the ticket you filed about this?

http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3085

i'm sorry, i don't want to sound ridicolous, but there are many other minor problems that seem to attract more attention than that and i don't get that.

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:44 am

honigbaer wrote:
TheSilverFox06 wrote:
honigbaer wrote:yeah, we should do that. but first my contacts need to be able to read my status message at all. that's still a problem noone actually cares about as a far as i can see.
What's the number of the ticket you filed about this?
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3085

i'm sorry, i don't want to sound ridicolous, but there are many other minor problems that seem to attract more attention than that and i don't get that.

It's because most of those problems are much much easier to fix, and because we're still in the process of getting joscar ready which may or may not fix it (I'm not sure how joscar's ICQ capabilities, if any, are). Rather than give misleading information, I just haven't done anything with that ticket (all I would do is stick a 'waiting on libgaim' milestone on it).

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I've updated the ticket to reflect what I said here
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Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:14 am

The ticket was just filed 3 weeks ago, and this thread was only opened yesterday. I'm sorry, but you need to get used to the fact that we have more issues than man power to deal with things, and that things filed a long time ago get a higher priority.

honigbaer · Post by **honigbaer** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:27 am

i do understand this, of course.
the reason why i didn't file a ticket before, was, that i didn't knew about the whole ticket system until a while ago since i didn't look at the support & development page.

memark · Post by **memark** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:33 am

Is there a chance that people actually avoid that page because of the word "development"? It actually took me some time to realize that this was the main page for getting help with Adium. Perhaps they could be somewhat separated, or another wording be used?

Post by **bgannin** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:01 pm

honigbaer wrote:
TheSilverFox06 wrote:
honigbaer wrote:yeah, we should do that. but first my contacts need to be able to read my status message at all. that's still a problem noone actually cares about as a far as i can see.
What's the number of the ticket you filed about this?
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3085

i'm sorry, i don't want to sound ridicolous, but there are many other minor problems that seem to attract more attention than that and i don't get that.

I hate to break it to everybody [not just you], but despite being able to interact and discuss Adium with developers it doesn't mean you'll get anything fixed when you want, or even when you think it should. It's not how software development (open source or not) works.

As to the issue...

1) it's not a make or break feature
2) even if it was... that doesn't guarantee it'd be done*

* an example - Mac OS X has a bug with file size calculation that's existed since day 1. As of 10.4.5 it's not fixed, yet I've had a critical bug filed with Apple for it [and discussed it with AppKit engineers], as have others.

Also... determining the order of resolution, and method of resolution, isn't a user level or even feedback requiring action - it's for developers and project managers to determine. If users determined who fixed what when then 1.0 would consist of A/V support as the sole ticket, possibly with group chat if enough people pushed... but that's not realistic, or even possible, as the managers and coders know.

John Don · Post by **John Don** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:48 am

Back to the OP, its funny how history repeats itself, or in this case, how threads seem to repeat themselves:

http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic. ... highlight=

I knew when I saw this that I had seen it somewhere before, lol