Something for the Mac users this time. I have written a little plug-in for Adium recently.
It can be downloaded and installed from the Adium Xtras site.
The plug-in, called Contact Album, stores all the icons that your contacts use over time and comes with a viewer for the icons.
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After installation of the plug-in, the album will slowly fill with icons as your contacts change them. You can open the album viewer with the Contact Album entry in Adium’s Window menu and with the View Album entry in the context menu for contacts.
Currently the plug-in comes with English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, and Swedish localizations. Further translations are welcome.
Install the plug-in: Contact Album
Please note that the plug-in requires Adium 1.3 or newer and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Get the source code. It’s available under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
i can’t understand yet where do you go to open the window of the contact album
Look in the “Window” menu, it’s right between “Chat Transcript Viewer” and “File Transfers”.
Alternatively, right-click on a contact, “View Album” is right under “View Chat Transcripts” in that menu.
And don’t forget to restart Adium after installing the plugin :)
Hi Jürgen
how can i copy the pictures from album to a folder in Finder, or Where are images stored on my mac?
OOOOHHH, i found it, i can just select all , drag and drop to a folder,
thanks, greate plugin
Yep, just use drag&drop :)
(The icons are stored under ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Contact Album)
Hi,
is ther a Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) version available?
Thanks
Unfortunately no. The album viewer uses a component that is only available in Leopard.
I read this comment of yours on the page of your Xtra: “I’d rather fix the problem in Adium before doing an ugly work-around in this plugin”.
This made me wonder whether you might be interested in becoming an Adium contributor/developer. :)
Part-time contributor maybe :) I don’t have enough spare time to be a real developer currently.
Cool! :)
any idea how to prevent the Syncagend to try sync the symlinks to .current ??
i have application Support/Adium on the idisk in order to have settings,logs and now albums in sync on 3 machines …
now every sync i have about 200 messages i have to confirm .. about the file .current (sich links to the current image)
oh well .. besides this .. this application is simply AWESOME !!
quite angry why i did not see this before ..as its a real asset to adium
Thanks!
I’ve never used Apple’s Backup program, I don’t know whether you can exclude some files.
Anyway, I’m going to implement a different solution for remembering the most recent icon for the next version of the plugin.
hey men, cool Plug-In ^_^
Excellent work!!!
what an amazing plugin :)
would you please upgrade/make it working with Adium v1.5hgr3161 ?
many thanks for the great work !
I erased some contacts from the album viewer accidentally, is there a way to re-add them again?… hope you can answer my message. By the way, theplug is awesome!!
You can re-add delete icons view ‘Edit / Undo’. Of course, this helps right after accidentally deleting icons.
If you want to add icons to the album manually (if you didn’t empty the Trash, you should find the deleted ones there), go to “Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Contact Album” and put the icons in the corresponding folders there (e.g. MSN.youraccount/somecontact”). The plug-in will show them after restarting Adium then.
You know, maybe it would be a good addition to be able to assign custom names and group arbitrary contacts in the album.
I have, prob. like a lot of people, multiple accounts across a dozen chat networks, and numerous double buddies on each, in other words the same buddy on numerous different accounts/networks.
Since the introduction of proxy contact-list entries in Adium, I have given up on trying to combine them into a single contact-list entry since this single contact now shows up in multiple groups in the contact list, since those tend to appear and disappear on a whim. Notable are groups for specific networks like skype. And even better, a grouped account now shows up in the skype group even if skype is not connected, in other words the skype group is still there, only because one of the multiple accounts of that person is connected. Total nightmare!
The whole point of grouping a contact was to reduce space in the contact list, and not have them occupy space in 5 different groups.
Anyway, since contact list albums seems to take its grouping hints from the contact list, that does not work very well for me anymore..
I would like to be able to do that only in contact list album, and also give a name for contacts to be used when only the ID is available, independent of Adium itself, like you mentioned facebook which only knows nicknames when that spec. buddy is actually connected.
Or does it cache the names? Actually I think it does… well.. still I have 200 people in FB that rarely connect so now I have around 100 FB-IDs in my contact list album, which would be nice to name until they actually connect…
Ohh and another thing.. It would be cool, if you could sort, and by that I mean group, the left pane of CLA by either name alphabetically, or by network, so all facebook contacts are grouped, and maybe you can think of some more useful grouping ways…
-V
Yea, I currently reuse Adiums built-in contact management, more or less in the same way as the log viewer.
Facebook contacts definitely are problem. I’ll consider your ideas for the next version.
Hi, are you planning to make the plugin compatible with Adium 1.5?
Thanks!
The current version (1.2.0) should work fine with Adium 1.5. Actually any version of the plugin >= 1.1.0 should.