<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="keywords" content="mention, highlight, notification" /> <meta name="description" content="Mentions" /> <link href="../css/topicpage.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" /> <div id="banner"> <a name="messageview" id="messageview"></a> <div id="navleft"><a class="navleftsty" href="../AdiumHelp.html">Adium Help
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</a></div> <div id="caticon"> <img src="../gfx/AdiumIcon.png" alt="Adium Icon" height="32" width="32" border="0" /> </div> <p>Adium provides indication of when your user name (and some other text you possibly specified - see below) has been mentioned in a
<a href="Messaging-GroupChat.html">group chat
</a>. Primarily it does so by displaying a grey line in the scrollbar (not customizable) but Adium also provides a way for message styles to apply custom styling to messages that contain a mention.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Specifying mentions
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Mentions can be specified in Preferences → Advanced → Mention. By default, Adium highlights messages that include your username but you can add other notification strings to be highlighted.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Scrollbar indicators
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <li>When your user name (or what you decide to highlight) is mentioned in a chat, a dark grey horizontal line is added.
</li> <li>You can access the "Jump to Previous Mark" or "Jump to Next Mark" from the Display menu or by right-clicking the scroll bar.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Mentions are also indicated by the color of the tab's unread mention count changing to red.
</p> <li>Mention count preferences can be changed in Preferences → Advanced → Message Alerts.
</li> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>In-chat indicators
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Adium allows message styles to provide their own, in-chat indicators for mention. All message styles bundled with 1.4 (or newer) provide a different, style-integrated indication for mentions that indicate the specific message that contains a message.
</p> <li>Gone Dark uses a colored background (matches variant color).
</li> <li>minimal_mod uses a dark block at the left edge (matches header color).
</li> <li>Mockie uses a "•" in the margin (may be left or right) (matches variant color).
</li> <li>Renkoo uses a colored background (matches variant color).
</li> <li>Smooth Operator uses a star in the right margin (matches text color).
</li> <li>Stockholm uses a mention icon to the left of the relevant message (mention icon will replace a contact icon if the user has chosen to display contact icons) (matches variant color).
</li> <li>yMous uses a colored block at the right edge of the relevant message (between the message and the timestamp if the timestamp is visible) (matches variant color).
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