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.
Tags: adium, Apple, contact album, osx, plugin
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.