Fire Development http://blog.fireim.org Blog about Fire Development Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:53:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The end of our development http://blog.fireim.org/2007/02/23/the-end-of-our-development/ http://blog.fireim.org/2007/02/23/the-end-of-our-development/#comments Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:29:44 +0000 gbooker http://blog.fireim.org/2007/02/23/the-end-of-our-development/ We are announcing that Fire will see no more releases. There is an announcement on the Front Page which explains our reasons.

As some of you know, there is a beta version of 2.0 floating around, however we feel that this version is just not ready for release in any form, so it will remain solely within the source code.

Sorry for any disappointments this may have caused.

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We are nearing the release of the next version of Fire. Currently the is getting smaller.

]]> http://blog.fireim.org/2006/09/25/images-lost-and-near-release/feed/ Better Fire History available http://blog.fireim.org/2006/06/19/better-fire-history-available/ http://blog.fireim.org/2006/06/19/better-fire-history-available/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2006 05:49:49 +0000 Alan /2006/06/19/better-fire-history-available/ Thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine (www.archive.org) We now have a complete release history for Fire, dating back to it’s very first public release on April 1, 1999. Our baby is 7 years old already!

]]> http://blog.fireim.org/2006/06/19/better-fire-history-available/feed/ Person Item http://blog.fireim.org/2006/03/30/person-item/ http://blog.fireim.org/2006/03/30/person-item/#comments Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:11:47 +0000 gbooker /2006/03/30/person-item/ Well, 2.0 is starting to mature… Soon it will be time for release.

The only big ticket item remaining is PersonItem. Basically, it is a stronger clustering method with Address Book sync. Some of the code already exists, and Alan and I are busy at work getting the rest done. Once this is complete, it will be time to go through a feature freeze, and do bug testing as well as localizations.

Some detail about how PersonItem will work (comments welcome):

  • You can only have one person of a particular name. It should be noted that only the name after a certain character (maybe a colon) will be displayed, so “Work: Jack” will display as “Jack” but won’t conflict with a different person named “Jack”
  • A person can exists in multiple groups, but a buddy within a person must exist within at least the groups for its person
  • A buddy can belong to multiple persons
  • A buddy within each group must exist within a person. This can be multiple persons, or the same.
  • The user can choose which icon is displayed for the person, and the priority for which buddy is displayed as the primary buddy

I am sure there is more, but you get the idea…

]]> http://blog.fireim.org/2006/03/30/person-item/feed/ New Icons (outra vez) http://blog.fireim.org/2006/02/21/new-icons-outra-vez/ http://blog.fireim.org/2006/02/21/new-icons-outra-vez/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:27:37 +0000 guifa /2006/02/21/new-icons-outra-vez/ As stated, the previous posts icons were just an initial test and shouldn’t have been considered indicative of what might else could come from the rumblings of well, wherever icons are borne at.

Anyways, here is a subset of a vastly different variation I had been working on. This follows the “slate” style popularised by OmniGroup, rather than the glassy that is rather touchy :)

For the add and remove buttons, it should be noted that even Apple is inconsistent in their presentation. Compare Finder’s white + with glow to Page’s green blob and white +. I opted to go with Page’s look. There are several variations on some of these, included a radically different approach to groups and buddy priority and buddy language. The main goal of this set of icons was to completely rid the set of the actual icon for a buddy wherever possible. With this set, an icon similar to OmniWeb’s web history would be used for chat history.

Again, comments appreciated.

New Icons (outra vez)

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