A continuing issue with IM as you know is the lack of interop between the services. Enter Adium, the answer for what ills you with multiple IM clients. Colin and Evan are two of the ten developers and contributors to this GNU-GPL project. While I've been using AIM and Jabber on iChat recently, maybe they'll convince you and me to move to Adium. For volunteers out there interested in IM on OS X, consider this Call to Arms from the Adium blog:
"Several of the new Gaim 2 changes need special attention for Adium to see any benefit, such as the new support for Yahoo Doodle. Interested in seeing Doodle support in Adium? Have enough coding experience to make it happen? Consider this an official invitation to try your hand."
Check out the latest build and get some questions posted for Colin and Evan. Your efforts will not be in vain as new recordings are rolling. You just might get some Christmas presents from CocoaRadio since we will all be waiting until Jan. 10th for the bigees!
Also, check out the Adium blog and the Trac-based support & development area.
Technorati Tags: adium, apple, cocoa, cocoaradio, gaim, im, obj-c
What are your thoughts (and motivations) on moving between log formats and how will it benefit your application & community?
What's the process and pain like making major transitions as Adium has went through several: TOC to libgaim, message styling [custom to XHTML+CSS], now logging [HTML to XML] and libgaim to joscar.
What's it like for a major OSS project to switch project leads as happened earlier this year?
Posted by: brian g. | 26 December 2005 at 10:08 AM
What are your favourite IM protocols, and why?
Jabber has been around for a long time, but has yet to really gain much traction in the IM sphere. Do you think Google's support (with GTalk) will help change this? Are there any other problems with Jabber that need to change before it can become a major contender?
What's the opinion of the Adium crew on the idea of having tiered support levels for the many supported protocols? (i.e. having more dedicated support to AIM or MSN because they are used far more widely than, say, Sametime or Novell)
Thanks :)
Posted by: patr1ck | 05 January 2006 at 09:56 PM
What's your favourite kind of finger?
Posted by: huwr | 06 January 2006 at 02:06 AM
Have you considered making Adium work with voiceover so that blind people can use instant messaging as well?
Posted by: Begemotike | 06 January 2006 at 02:07 AM
begemotike: I can answer that one for you. yes, we've made some progress on that for 1.0. we're (I'm, actually) not done, but the contact list is now fully readable by VoiceOver.
Posted by: Mac-arena the Bored Zo | 06 January 2006 at 01:30 PM
What is the new “Personal” preference panel in 1.0SVN?
Posted by: zaudragon | 06 January 2006 at 10:20 PM
The way development is going, do you feel that it is what you want 1.0 to be? Do you feel there is something major missing which just cant make it? (Other than AV)
Posted by: David Munch | 07 January 2006 at 09:32 AM
Why are MSN file transfers slow (under 10kbps) ? Will it be fixed sometime in the future?
Posted by: Sean | 08 January 2006 at 02:00 AM
Have you given any thought to supporting the XML driven voice chat protocol that Google Talk uses? Adium works great with GTalk otherwise, and that would be icing on the cake. Love the program - thanks for all the hard work!
Posted by: A Bull in the China Shop of Life | 09 January 2006 at 12:14 PM
Given this is an open source project, how would you judge the quality of the contributions from non-Adium developers? Do you get much contributions at all and what might be some advice for would-be contributors to improve the quality of their contributions?
The only other multi protocol IM client worth noting under Mac OS X is Proteus, what would you say is something is missing in Adium that Proteus already has?
Posted by: Alastair Tse | 10 January 2006 at 06:24 PM
I've been following SVN development for a while now, but this isn't as easy as just downloading a simple file - When will we be seeing a public BETA for Adium 1.0? Any time soon?
Posted by: Paul Wilde | 13 January 2006 at 12:57 PM
How are companies currently using open source libraries and developers to push their individual agenda? What do you think of the Google-specific integration of XMPP extensions in GAIM 2.0?
When do you decide to code support for a feature that is not included in a standard library? If Windows Live Messenger has contact cards, or Yahoo! has avatars, how does that enter product development thoughts?
Posted by: niallkennedy | 13 January 2006 at 03:00 PM