Op zaterdag 4 februari 2006 09:09, schreef Youness Alaoui: > yeah, same on original, it's in bold, for now, apart from nick truncation > (which is buggy on amsn for now), we replicate the exact same look as M$N, > nick is "$nick ($status) - <b><i>$psm</i></b>" > yes, we should be better than the original, but yet, I think that $nick > ($status) - <bi $psm/>" thing is great, perfect way to show it... > also, we could be better.. but we're still the entrypoint to linux for > most win32 users.. so we should give them something they are familiar > with, they don't want to be lost when opening the program.. if they wanted > that, they would use gaim instead! I understand we should stay close to the original, so newbies will feel familiar. But we'd also like them to say: 'wow, it's even better!'. For example, when I started using aMSN (long time ago. somewhere near release 0.81) I was very pleased to see smileys shown on the contact list, while M$N just showed them as text.
So with PSM, let's stick to bold+italic to have it familiar (yeah, I'm finally giving in ;-)), and solve the single problem that remains: unless you have contacts with very short nicks, or you like to have the CL very big, the PSM is always hidden on the CL! I think showing the PSM below $nick ($status) is the only solution to that. Another thing is, why isn't the psm shown with a custom nick? Isn't a custom nick just to replace the nick? Of course I can include $psm in the custom nick, but that will make the psm appear not bold+italic and before the status. I suggest doing it this way: - Remove the Global nick setting - Remove 'Show email on contactlist instead of nick' option - Have a new setting how a contact should be referenced in the top of a chat window. With '$nick <$email> ($status)' being the best default IMO. - Have a new setting how a contact should be referenced in the CL, with the current behaviour to be default: '$nick ($status) - $psm'. (And me setting it to '$nick ($status)\n$psm' of course) - In both of them, have $nick being replaced by the custom nick if one is set for that contact, otherwise the real nick. - Always have the PSM shown bold+italic. No need to say I guess, but anyway: the suggestions to remove global nick and 'show email on cl' are just because those two options become unnecessary when the other things are done. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
