![]() ![]() Apply the patch with patch -p1 Just remember we’re dealing with open source people) Download and unpack the Adium sources (Yes, the current release must be downloaded from the Previous Releases page.It was made for Adium 1.3.8 but it will likely work for a few future releases I could have changed the class in Interface Builder, but still would have needed to patch the code for the border-less window, and patching a nib is less robust than patching a source file. AIBorderlessWindow, in the same framework, takes care of evilising the contact list when it’s made border-less. The regular windows are made evil by making them of class AIDockingWindow, which is defined in the AIUtilities framework. Last week I finally got around to patching Adium to get rid of this nonsense. Granted, you can disable screen edge sticking by holding I don’t know which modifier while you drag the window, but since the feature is useless and annoying, why not make it kick in only when you jump through enough hoops to deserve it, instead of when you’re quietly minding your own business, repositioning your windows like you’ve always done for the past twenty-five years? Right, from the makers of an application that has preferences to turn off window shadows or to choose whether tooltips are displayed when in the background. I tried reporting the issue, years ago, suggesting to make it optional, but the developers looked down on me, saying they didn’t want to bloat the preferences with such details. I don’t use the former anymore (partly for this reason but mostly because of its utter uselessness when it comes to following discussions) and have switched to Tweetie, but I still use Adium regularly. Here I’m especially talking about Twitterrific and Adium. And it’s not like the third floor was hard to reach before.Ī good rant is no fun without pointing fingers. You can still reach the first floor but you have to take the elevator to the third, make a rope out of your neighbour’s bedsheets and climb down the window. It’s like replacing the staircase in a building with an elevator that only goes to the third floor. So we are dealing with a feature designed to help you with something that is not very difficult in the first place, while rendering another, usually simple task very hard to achieve. It’s all very nice when that’s what you want to do but first, that’s almost never my case, second when it is, I’m able to do it without help, thank you very much, and third, it makes it almost impossible to position a window a few pixels away from the edge of the screen, which I like to do because it leaves me an access to the desktop. In particular, I’m talking about the ‘feature’ where, when you move a window close to a screen edge, it sticks to it like a steel stretcher to an MRI. ![]() That’s very nice of them, except it’s annoying as Hell and insulting. Therefore they develop features to help us poor crippled users deal with our handicap. Some developers seem to think that people can’t use a mouse, probably because of their own inability to use one. ![]() That a lot more than what we could hope for last week. Now that Google Reader is dead, we can hope that existing feed readers won’t be abandoned and will either rely on other services (we’ll probably see a Fever-enabled Reeder for iPad before July 1st) or, more smartly, on no service at all, except if you need syncing. So no matter how well done they otherwise are, you remain stuck by Reader’s limitations. But those applications don’t just rely on Google Reader for syncing, they require it, plain and simple. I couldn’t care less (notice the proper use of this difficult expression) if my feed reader couldn’t sync. What’s ironic is that I don’t even need syncing: I exclusively read feeds in Reeder for iPad. I’ll love to, but currently, some 95% of feed readers rely on Google Reader for syncing, and the remaining 5% all suck. Now you might be inclined to to tell me that if I don’t like it, I should just not use it. That’s the kind of situation where the term UX actually makes sense, in that it’s a shitty experience for the user. And if you didn’t use the system for a week or so (ever heard of holidays?), those personal feeds would stop being updated altogether. If you had personal feeds for which you were the only subscriber, like issues assigned to you in your bug tracker or a Pinboard tag, it would only be updated once every 24 hours. Google Reader kinda sucked 1 in many ways. A vast majority of fellow geeks is up in arms about the announcement of the end of Google Reader, but I cheered. ![]()
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