Adium

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Adium
Developer(s)Adium team
Initial releaseSeptember 28, 2001
(22 years ago)
 (2001-09-28)[1]
Stable release1.5.10.4 (April 27, 2017; 6 years ago (2017-04-27)) [±]
Preview release1.5.11hgr5899 (January 15, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-01-15)) [±]
Repository
Written inObjective-C, Cocoa API
Operating systemmacOS
Available inmultilingual[2]
TypeInstant messaging client
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.adium.im Edit this on Wikidata

Adium is a

API, and it is released under the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later
and many other licenses for components that are distributed with Adium.

History

Adium was created by college student Adam Iser, and the first version, "Adium 1.0", was released in September 2001 and supported only

AIM. The version numbers of Adium since then have followed a somewhat unusual pattern. There were several upgrades to Adium 1.0, ending with Adium 1.6.2c.[1]

At this point, the Adium team began a complete rewrite of the Adium code, expanding it into a multiprotocol messaging program.

Intel-based Macs
.

In 2005, Adium received a "Special Mention" at the Apple Design Awards.[4]

After version Adium X 0.89.1, however, the team finally decided to change the name back to "Adium", and, as such, "Adium 1.0" was released on February 2, 2007.

Power Mac G5 Quad,[5] and Adium 1.2's build time in Xcode 3.0 as a benchmark for comparing the performance of the eight-core Mac Pro and Power Mac G5 Quad.[6]

On November 4, 2014, Adium scored 6 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard. It lost a point because there has not been a recent independent code audit.[7]

From March 2019, Adium is no longer able to support the ICQ plugin.[citation needed]

Protocols

Adium supports a wide range of instant messaging networks through the

libraries libezv (for Bonjour), STTwitterEngine (for Twitter), and libpurple
(for all other protocols).

Adium supports the following

protocols
:

Plugins and customization

Adium makes use of a

Off-the-Record Messaging
library.

Adium is also highly customizable through the use of resources its developers call "Xtras". The program can be customized by the use of hundreds of third-party Xtras that alter the appearance of emoticons, dock icons, contact list styles, and messages styles. Adium can also be enhanced through the use of different sound sets. AppleScripts can also be utilized to automatically alter behavior in responses to certain triggers.

Icon

The icon of Adium is a green duck named Adiumy. It is also the mascot of the software.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Adium1xChangelog". The Adium Project. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
  2. ^ "Adium - About". The Adium Project. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
  3. ^ "History Of Adium". The Adium Project. Archived from the original on 2009-08-06. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
  4. ^ Cohen, Peter (10 June 2005). "WWDC: Apple Design Award 2005 winners announced". MacWorld. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Mac Pro - Performance: Science and technical computing". Apple Inc. Archived from the original on 28 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-20.
  6. ^ "Mac Pro - Performance: Science and technical computing". Apple Inc. Archived from the original on 17 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
  7. ^ "Secure Messaging Scorecard. Which apps and tools actually keep your messages safe?". Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2014-11-04. Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2015-01-16.
  8. ^ "Adium/Twitter broken with 1.5.10, but the latest 1.5.11-nightly fixes the problem". trac.adium.im. 2015-03-05. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25.
  9. ^ "Adium - About". adium.im. Retrieved 2017-07-20.

External links

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article: Adium. Articles is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license; additional terms may apply.Privacy Policy