Adium-Lite Branch Scope Documentation

Overview

Generally I (the_tick) have been wanting to see how much could be removed from Adium, while still keeping it usable. I also would like to familiarize myself with portions of the codebase which I am no longer familiar with, such as the new menu item code which Zac has created.

Goals

• Whittle down and review every aspect of Adium. Remove whatever can be removed.
• Once the removal process is complete, make the rest of the items left over more cohesive if possible.
• Once the cohesiveness process is complete, see if this can be applied back to Adium itself.

Stuff to Remove

• Contact List
• Custom Dock Icon stuffs
• Most Xtras (leave emoticons)
• Advanced
• Custom tab switching preferences in General prefs
• Custom send message pref in General
• Away status window
• Most of Events
• Most of the View menu
• Xtras manager
• Status groups.

For Removal (undecided)

• Tabs
• Log Viewer
• OTR stuff
• Message Display advanced prefs (if not removed, would move to message prefs)

Stuff to Enable by Default

• Most of the AB prefs. Pick sane defaults here.
• Message History, have 5ish lines if logging is enabled, and don't if it's disabled.
• Show custom emoticons for MSN
• Show display names as status message in MSN

Stuff to Change This stuff isn't getting completely redone

• Probably Get Info

Stuff to Add

• Buddy Bar
• In Message Window contact management from the Rawr mockups
• When Adium signs on, have a spinner (Adium rides on spinners.m perhaps? hehehe:D) to show status of signing on.
• The ability to see your status on the message window.
• If tabs get dumped, we need a source list or something else to manage chats.