Adium

Ticket #4920 (closed enhancement: duplicate)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 months ago

aMSN features

Reported by: cokeguy17@yahoo.ca Assigned to: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: MSN Version: 0.89
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Patch:
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Description

There are a few features in aMSN that Adium should borrow.

1. Nudge support - Overall pretty useless, but a fun feature that other MSN IMes have that Adium is lacking. 2. Custom emoticons - the ability to use or see custom emoticons. 3. MSN 'Friendly Name' - The second(additional) line of text in an MSN user's name 4. Video Support

Now, I'm pretty sure that aMSN is open source, so couldn't Adium just examine the lines of code in aMSN and incorporate the useful ones? That would be a lot easier than writing them from scratch.

Change History

07/28/2006 06:42:11 PM changed by matt

  • priority changed from high to normal.
  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to duplicate.

Including features is much more than copy and paste. aMSN is not built around a reusable library, so it would be harder to hook it up to the Adium UI. Also, it is completely written in TCL, while Adium uses C and Objective-C. Developers would need to convert all the code from one language to the other, or to find a way to interface between the two (like the Cocoa-Java bridge).

aMSN is probably a good place to look to know how the protocol works, but that code cannot be ported directly to Adium.

By the way, we can receive custom emoticons in the beta version of Adium 1.0, but there are still a few problems.

Duplicates: 1 (#767), 2 receiving (fixed), 2 sending (#506), 3 (#767), 4 (#6)

09/26/2008 08:29:08 AM changed by Robby

  • milestone deleted.