I think I had already mentioned this before but it turns out that Message Styles were one of the things that was wrong with the current group chat UI. There was an interesting conversation on IRC regarding that.
As it turns out, there are already people working on new message styles for group chat. Thats a very good thing: to leave the UI design to the people who do good design. If and when the group Chat UI gets improved, it would be a good idea to announce to the User Community (especially Message Style creators) what was going on and ask them to design Message styles that worked best for 1 on 1, group chat , or both and categorize at their discretion.
Below are two "new" Message Styles that were shown to me by a message style maker:
yMous modified
Tul modified
I will be testing these with the IRC plugin soon to see how different the experience is. Also, it was mentioned that Smooth Operator 2 was looking good in Group Chats.
Finally, whilst doing some more digging into Colloquy's interface, I noticed that it
supports the OutlineView, Drawer and Adium-like tabs. (I knew it contained Adium code but hadn't seen it in action yet). Having all 3 different UI's in one app, is something that could be explored with Adium.
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