In a log, you just get some basic markup with a case of classitis and very, very poor semantics. For example, the markup you define in a theme is not used in saving the chat log. Granted, there are some things I’d like to change. Adium may block that kind of thing, but if not, then it’s a chat client extensible beyond anything I’ve so far imagined.Īnd given how much I love to tinker with my software, that’s like waving a bulging suitcase of money in front of a senator. (Update: Phil says yes.) Click on a line to copy the whole line to the clipboard, say, or dynamically change the in-session presentation by hitting a button. I’m now wondering if I could write and attach JavaScript that would make chat sessions even more interactive, more robust. And then I created some variants that slightly modify it in various ways, mostly to prove that I could. So with some quick hacking, I not only radically improved the markup generated during a chat (the markup I saw in the packages I downloaded was, um, sub-optimal), but I basically replicated my old iChat theme with some simple CSS. You can even define variants on your theme by writing additional style sheets. In creating a message theme, you define what markup will be used, and write CSS to style it. The entirety of an Adium chat window is an XHTML document that’s being dynamically updated via DOM scripting-all of it pumped through WebKit, of course. So I dug into the package contents of a promising message theme… and found out that themes are based on nothing more than XHTML and CSS. If I could recreate that in Adium, it would make the migration much, much simpler. In iChat, I cranked the graphic frippery down to zero so that the chat sessions were as compact as possible, but I still had the text look nice. There are quite a few available at the Adium Xtras site, but none of them were really what I wanted either. Since none of the default message themes really did it for me, I went looking for others. You can change the appearance of your chat sessions (with “message themes”), the dock icons, the contact list, and much more. Still, Tim’s word is always gold (or at least high-grade palladium) with me, and he said the magic words (“highly skinnable”), so I downloaded the latest copy and poked around for a bit.īoy howdy! Adium has definitely come a long, long way since last I visited. But I hardly ever log onto MSN any more, as everyone I know is on AIM. Okay, yes: it was a damn sight better than Messenger for OS X, which is the only reason I even kept it on my hard drive. At the time, its presentational inflexibility was too annoying for me to take it seriously. I’d tried it a while back, and been only marginally impressed. I don’t see exactly why that would cause it, but it seems like a fairly unusual setup that might not have been tested for.Tim Bray, that dashing man-about-town, recently sang the praises of Adium, a multi-service chat client for OS X. If I had to guess then I’d think it was a consequence of me not having a GMail account associated with my Google account. I also asked around in their IRC channel but no-one else could replicate the problem.
My bug report to Adium including a connection log file is up on their Trac. I can still access Google Talk for this account if I use a talk widget on a Google Website (Plus, or iGoogle for example).
ADIUM GOOGLE TALK PASSWORD
Google specifically mention Adium in their examples of setting up an application password for Google Talk so I doubt it’s a generic Adium problem. Reeder for feeds and calendering on my phone). Application specific passwords work with other applications (e.g. Obviously you need to generate an application-specific password but these won’t let me log in. Anyone else having this problem? After turning on 2-factor authentication on my Google Account I stopped being able to log in through Adium (Mac IM client that uses Pidgin’s libpurple for IM).
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