Focus line occludes text

[ajslater]

The focus line writes over chat text, whereas it should place itself just before new text starts. The way it renders now it looks like a red overstrike effect. This is observed with the default theme: Stockholm

Also, changing focus line display preference doesn't take effect immediately, you have to change the input focus of the window to trigger a the change.

Focus lines are more useful in busy group chats than individual chats, so people may be more inclined to play with this feature now.

[Robby]

Are you still seeing this in b13?

[mathuaerknedam]

This is really two separate issues. I'm going to address the first, and then close this ticket. Please create a new ticket for the second issue.

Unfortunately, there is no sure way to prevent the overlap except though careful design by the message style author. Adium currently has no way to identify any particular message and no way to insert the indicator between messages without either breaking message style formatting or lying about exactly where focus was lost (by indicating only the first non-consecutive messages after focus was lost).

That said I did create #13300 which should allow for better, per-message styling of focus indicators, so hopefully this will get addressed for 1.4.1. Unfortunately, it will require special styling form each message style author. A more general solution is a much more thorny problem, and will also end up not working for most older message styles.