CenterICQ - Colored Service Names

By Skip
Created: Thursday, October 09, 2003, 14:31:29 MST

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Ever wondered which service a contact connects through when using centericq? Well, with this patch service names are colored to match the varying contact colors.

Overview

Centericq is a terminal based instant messaging client.  It is very flexible and supports most of the major IM services including: ICQ, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo.  Additionally, it also supports RSS feeds and IRC.  Contacts that you add to your contacts list are color coded.  The color indicates which service the contact uses.  Unfortunately, the service status display does not color the names to match the contacts so you can't correlate the two. 

This caused be trouble as an intermittent MSN, AIM and Yahoo user.  I would sometimes wonder which service an offline contact used, but without pulling up their information I couldn't tell.  With this patch, I just compare the contacts color to the services listed at the top.

Current release

Patch against centericq cvs 20031008: colorprotocolnames-0.2.patch

Old releases

Patch against centericq-20030313-003000.tar.gz: colorprotocolnames-0.1.patch

ChangeLog

centericq cvs 20031008: Update.

Update to patch the latest version of centericq: 4.9.8cvs (latest release is 4.9.7)

centericq-20030313-003000: Initial release.

This is the initial patch.  It reverses the order that protocols are added to a temporary buffer in order to add the color codes.  They still appear in the same order on the screen.  The services' names are also colored to match the colors assigned to your contacts.

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