Adium - Xtras - View Xtra: Glow Light

	Glow Light
	Submitted By desp

Description

A simple and well-rounded message style, with support for custom backgrounds and transparency.

This is an updated version of Glow, containing only the light variants. For the dark variants, check out Glow Dark.

There’s a minor problem with the message style preview mechanism in the Adium preferences window — the lower corners of the message bubbles fail to refresh properly while changing variants. To force Adium to refresh them, simply choose the new variant a second time, or close and reopen the preferences window.

— desp

Changes

1.2

Fixed consecutive status messages to display properly

1.1

Split the message style in half.
Added support for custom backgrounds and transparency.
Added more color variants — currently includes Blue vs Green, Blue vs Grey, Blue vs Red, Green vs Blue, Green vs Grey, Green vs Red, Grey vs Blue, Grey vs Green, Grey vs Grey, Grey vs Red, Red vs Blue, Red vs Green, Red vs Grey.
Fixed a spacing issue — the first message bubble in a message window containing less than a whole windowful of messages would have no padding underneath.
Fixed a font size issue — changing the font size to anything more than 10 pixels would break the layout.

1.0

Initial release.

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# by greatcaffeine on 09/06/06 at 17:50:49

Awesome again, I can't think of anything I'd change!

# by zipper on 09/06/06 at 17:58:06

How do you make the background transparent?

# by desp on 09/06/06 at 18:07:46

In the Messages preference pane turn on the "Use custom background" option, then click the color well to show the Colors window, which contains an Opacity slider.

# by m2e on 09/06/06 at 21:29:49

Opacity will be in Adium 1.0 (the next release)

# by zipper on 09/08/06 at 14:49:39

Yeah, I tried that, the only problem being that there is no opacity slider, so either you are doing something I am not, or, more likely, you are using Beta 1.0, guess I will just have to wait untill they release it, as I do not like running betas

# by m2e on 09/06/06 at 21:29:02

Even better than the original! 5 ducks

# by ispytonyv on 09/08/06 at 02:32:59

doesn't seem to respect font preference, when set to 12 pt it still renders at 10... otherwise great job

# by MonsieurLemon on 09/13/06 at 02:25:24

Love it.

# by ddamato on 10/08/06 at 16:45:12

It looks cool, but I think it's too big for me. Nice job though! :]

x damato

# by zyxpink on 01/02/07 at 20:09:15

awesome! love the simplicity! and the bigness cause im blind! haha

# by BlackandWhitePenguin on 02/17/07 at 23:38:15

I used this for quite a while (I LOVE the green and blue variant) but then in got funky with v.1. On the bright (or should I say, light (sorry, bad pun)) side it introduced my to creating my own styles. Anyway, really cool style.

# by tasmanian_devil on 03/26/07 at 00:54:04

Hee Hee.. REALLY GOOD!!

# by aragost on 07/20/07 at 21:31:32

Cool theme, but it gets quite messed up if the screen name is longer than one line (quite common on MSN)

# by zazzakakashi on 01/12/08 at 00:24:39

I love this message theme !! I been using it for a pretty long time now, but i had a suggestion.

I was using the new iChat on Leopard the other day and noticed that you could use a boxe chat view, that kinda looks like this theme, except the colors are sort of reversed and there is the icons on the left side.

I wish i knew how to create a theme to make it, but unfortunately i never managed to wrap my head around it.

So i was asking you if you would feel like making the iChat boxes one??? Pleaaaase!! Pretty pleasse!!!!!!!!!!!!

# by desp on 01/12/08 at 10:27:23

I'm sorry. I quit using Adium in favor of iChat 4.0, so I won't be working on any Adium add-ons now.

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Current Version:	1.2
Last Updated:	12/21/06
Credits:
desp