----- Original Message ----- From: "Youness Alaoui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...] > as I said, the OIMs should be considered as normal messages, no title > change, no 'separate oim chatid', it should all appear 100% > transparent to the user... with WLM, I send many OIMs without noticing > until I read the 'this user is offline' in the top bar... Hi, just a little consideration around this. I think you should enforce the notification of state changes. I think even MSN lacks (I haven't still tried WLM but I guess it still does) this, and as you mean aMSN not just a clone, but also better client, you will agree with me. Let me explain. Imagine your friend is in a "Busy" state. On MSN you can read this on the little banner/tooltip under his nickname, on aMSN this is in the topbar. I've many friends who usually set their state to Busy or Away, and then never switch it back to online. The catch here is that, having such friends, you soon forget the use of that bar, and you don't pay attention anymore to what it says. And so it's for aMSN's topbar (unless the skin is using different colors, of course). In this scenario, if your friend accidentally disconnected, before OIMs, you would have kept on talking to him, thinking of him as if it still were online (not caring about the topbar/banner), but you would have been soon notified that "message could not be delireved successfully" by a message right in the chat window. You see now what I mean? With OIM you wouldn't have this simple message, and you might keep on talking without knowing that your friends won't see your messages until he'll come back, which may or may not be what you want. So, even if I know I've already asked for this other times, now I think such a feature would be really much more useful: print a "$NICK is now offline" message in the chat window if such an event occurs while you're chatting. My two cents, (sorry for the long post ;) ) bye -- _____/\/o\/\/here/\/\an_____ NoWhereBlog: www.nowhereland.it deviantArt: http://nowhereland.deviantart.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
