Comments on: Contact Album Plug-In for Adium

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:42:10 +0000

In reply to Guillermo. The current version (1.2.0) should work fine with Adium 1.5. Actually any version of the plugin >= 1.1.0 should.

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:37:27 +0000

Hi, are you planning to make the plugin compatible with Adium 1.5?
Thanks!

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:23:45 +0000

In reply to Vitus. 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.

By: Vitus

Vitus — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:39:28 +0000

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

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:02:50 +0000

In reply to Adeu.

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.

By: Adeu

Adeu — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:14:26 +0000

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!!

By: fama

fama — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:14:36 +0000

what an amazing plugin :)

would you please upgrade/make it working with Adium v1.5hgr3161 ?

many thanks for the great work !

By: Marco Antonio

Marco Antonio — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:36:20 +0000

hey men, cool Plug-In ^_^

Excellent work!!!

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:47:22 +0000

In reply to Mario. Thanks!

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:47:05 +0000

In reply to Mario.

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.

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:34:15 +0000

In reply to Mario. 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

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:33:20 +0000

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)

By: Robby

Robby — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:00:29 +0000

In reply to Jürgen Kreileder. Cool! :)

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:25:20 +0000

In reply to Robby. Part-time contributor maybe :) I don't have enough spare time to be a real developer currently.

By: Robby

Robby — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:27:57 +0000

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. :)

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:05:05 +0000

In reply to Viviane. Unfortunately no. The album viewer uses a component that is only available in Leopard.

By: Viviane

Viviane — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:51:55 +0000

Hi,

is ther a Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) version available?

Thanks

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:04:30 +0000

In reply to -E-. Yep, just use drag&drop :) (The icons are stored under ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Contact Album)

By: -E-

-E- — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:40:19 +0000

In reply to -E-. OOOOHHH, i found it, i can just select all , drag and drop to a folder, thanks, greate plugin

By: -E-

-E- — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:33:59 +0000

Hi Jürgen
how can i copy the pictures from album to a folder in Finder, or Where are images stored on my mac?

By: Jürgen Kreileder

Jürgen Kreileder — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:29:50 +0000

In reply to xd17.

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 :)

By: xd17

xd17 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:14:14 +0000

i can’t understand yet where do you go to open the window of the contact album