Man, that is an example of graceful degradation, just not what we usually understand this to mean.
- Bubbles. Seriously? The 2005's want their failed metaphors back. Thanks, the list-and-icons Adium presents are way more useful
- stamp-sized images to disturb the text flow. Great idea, please forget about it right now.
Adium is completely unsexy, and this is a good thing. I don't need a chat application to take over my whole screen, this is not Facebook Home.
Next up: Terminal.app reborn: output of Unix commands grouped by "conversation" - because is looks so much nicer. Icons for every shell command - much sexier looking.
Everyone is not you. Some people like to have a chat application take up the whole screen. And chat bubbles are alive and well, for example in Apple's own Messages.app
I switched from Adium to Messages because I haven't found a way to turn off annoying dock animation of Adium when Internet is offline or when jabber server is down.
Later I found that Messages' proprietary protocol that synchronizes chats on Mac and iPhone is very convenient, and most of my contacts have iPhones or Macs. So today I almost don't use jabber. Sad but true.
>I haven't found a way to turn off annoying dock animation of Adium
Yeah, my one peeve with Adium. I ended up going into the application package and replacing all the PNGs that make up the animation with the first one. Problem solved.
- Bubbles. Seriously? The 2005's want their failed metaphors back. Thanks, the list-and-icons Adium presents are way more useful
- stamp-sized images to disturb the text flow. Great idea, please forget about it right now.
Adium is completely unsexy, and this is a good thing. I don't need a chat application to take over my whole screen, this is not Facebook Home.
Next up: Terminal.app reborn: output of Unix commands grouped by "conversation" - because is looks so much nicer. Icons for every shell command - much sexier looking.