Making Adium not be the default AIM client

bsharitt · Post by **bsharitt** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:46 am

Is there any way to keep Adium from making itself the default AIM client. I can repair it temporarily from using the More Internet system preferences add on, but everytime I restart Adium, it hijacks the protocol to make itself the default again. It's very annoying to click on a link to someone's AIM name and have Adium open instead of iChat, when there is no AIM account associated with Adium.

BlueRevolution · Post by **BlueRevolution** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:55 am

so... wouldn't it make more sense to associate your aim/ichat account with adium? vid and audio chat aside, of course.

I don't think there's a way to keep Adium not default as of the current release though.

carlj7 · Post by **carlj7** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:27 am

This has been discussed before. I forget exactly what the final outcome was though… Feel free to search the forums. My suggestion was that this should be kept as the default behavior, but a checkbox should be added to the preferences to turn this off by service.

Post by **bgannin** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:52 pm

The problem is iChat actually. A client must take control of IM handling to be able to use them at all so when a client (Adium, AIM, iChat, etc.) loads they take control of aim://

That said, we do it correctly, iChat does not. They don't ever take control properly

Providing workarounds for lacking support in other apps isn't always good. (the real way it should work is that whatever app you last IM'ed with is what gets the aim:// calls)

Strifer · Post by **Strifer** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:55 pm

i think adium shouldn't do anythng if i'm not even using AIM, yet it still is doing that even while i'm using iChat at that particular moment. I only chat on AIM, so i use Adium for that, but someone asked me to test it and it's really annoying.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:54 pm

Look on macupdate.com for "More Internet"

Believe this will allow you to set it accordingly. Sorry if I didn't read any of this thread.

Post by **evands** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:43 pm

The_Tick wrote:Look on macupdate.com for "More Internet"

Believe this will allow you to set it accordingly. Sorry if I didn't read any of this thread.

Adium will take over on next launch tho.

carlj7 · Post by **carlj7** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:15 am

evands wrote:Adium will take over on next launch tho.

That's why I think a preferences option for default IM client (like Safari's preferences option for default web browser) should be added to Adium, and the other chat clients for that matter. It's too much to ask users to know that they need to download More Internet to get this set up. Just keep making Adium the preferred client by default, but let users turn this on or off.

Post by **evands** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:58 am

carlj7 wrote:
evands wrote:Adium will take over on next launch tho.
That's why I think a preferences option for default IM client (like Safari's preferences option for default web browser) should be added to Adium, and the other chat clients for that matter. It's too much to ask users to know that they need to download More Internet to get this set up. Just keep making Adium the preferred client by default, but let users turn this on or off.

Downloading More Internet won't help you in this situation. Adium makes itself the default when it loads. AIM makes itself the default when it loads -- so for AIM, whichever loaded last will be what loads next if you click an AIM link. It's iChat's fault for not following this same convention.

Post by **The_Tick** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:34 pm

evands wrote:
carlj7 wrote:
evands wrote:Adium will take over on next launch tho.
That's why I think a preferences option for default IM client (like Safari's preferences option for default web browser) should be added to Adium, and the other chat clients for that matter. It's too much to ask users to know that they need to download More Internet to get this set up. Just keep making Adium the preferred client by default, but let users turn this on or off.
Downloading More Internet won't help you in this situation. Adium makes itself the default when it loads. AIM makes itself the default when it loads -- so for AIM, whichever loaded last will be what loads next if you click an AIM link. It's iChat's fault for not following this same convention.

But it's our fault that Adium sets itself as the default as well. Maybe a nswindow asking if you want this set on first launch would resolve this?

Post by **bgannin** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:12 am

The_Tick wrote:But it's our fault that Adium sets itself as the default as well. Maybe a nswindow asking if you want this set on first launch would resolve this?

Provided it has " [x] Don't Ask Again"

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:17 am

Well Tick said "on first launch" so I think he meant just the first time Adium is opened, and never again in any case. Sounds like an alright idea to me.

Post by **The_Tick** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:25 am

FredAkbar wrote:Well Tick said "on first launch" so I think he meant just the first time Adium is opened, and never again in any case. Sounds like an alright idea to me.

Hmm.. I hadn't really thought it out though. Might be better to prompt with a checkbox to never ask, as that could be reset by something and we'd have to prompt the user again anyhow.