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	zerojay	2007-11-30 , 01:31
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Originally Posted by johnkzin

1) when talking to someone who is on a cell phone IM client instead of a regular one, Adium without jabber shows them as "on via a wireless client". Adium with jabber just shows them as "on". I don't like losing that bit of information.

The problem with this is that there is no coresponding Jabber status for "mobile". There's no real way for the clients to realize that person is mobile. Some attempt to cheat and change the name of the person to add (mobile) after, but that's not really a clean solution.

I personally don't care if they're mobile or not.

Originally Posted by johnkzin

2) when sending them IM's from Adium, via jabber, my messages come from "johnkzin@aim.jablet.org" instead of just "johnkzin". I would prefer this to be transparent to my correspondents. They shouldn't know if I'm directly using AIM, or using AIM via a jabber gateway.

That should not happen because it *IS* transparent. It's quite possible that it still shows up as @aim.jablet.org on YOUR end (which is what it should be doing) but there's no way it should show up like that to your contacts. In my ten years of using Jabber, I've never even once seen this happen, so I'm going to guess it's either a) Adium screwing something up majorly or b) you're mistaking seeing it with @aim.jablet.org as meaning that your contact sees it too.

Originally Posted by johnkzin

3) the icons on the tablet, for presence, kind of annoy me. "Red" means to me "online, but away", not "offline". Instead, "offline but away" is shown as yellow. If it were up to me, the "offline" icon would be dark grey (showing your own status as invisible would be light grey). The "away" icon would be a red dot. Yellow would be idle. Green would be not-idle (as it is now).

I've never once seen a client that uses red for away instead of disconnected. Pretty much everything I've seen shows red as being disconnected and it's also more or less the standard everywhere.

Only option I can give you there is to hack the icons (which is entirely possible) to show you the colors you'd like.

Originally Posted by johnkzin

These aren't jablet's fault, of course. #1 and #2 are either Adium's fault, or the fault of jabber gateways in general. #3 is a Maemo issue. But, it causes the experience to not quite sit well with me. Not sure how I'll proceed with this for now.

Though, I do appreciate all of the work that went into this.

Thanks, I appreciate that. You've given me a newfound disrespect for Adium though.

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