Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4208319 By: deryni9
Yes, knowing whether someone has you in their buddy list can be a useful piece of information, but it is in no way important enough to be shown on the main buddy list screen. Which is why it was removed but left in the tooltip. No, we didn't receive complaints about it, but then again we didn't receive complaints about the fact that there wasn't a global status either, or really any about not having a global buddy icon. Running gaim development based only on the things we hear complaints about is not a model that makes any sense. And attempting to figure out what the users want is exactly what we should be doing, since that's the only way we can make a better IM client. If your friend would never have noticed you weren't on his list then clearly your being on his list isn't very important. Because as soon as he needed to find you he would have seen that you were offline and checked with you about it later/some other way. So I don't buy this as a real reason. What "simpler way" to control multiple accounts status are you thinking of? The way that didn't let you save complicated statuses? The way that required you to go into the Tools->Accounts menu once for each account? People really like saying the 1.5.0 status method was easier but are never really able to explain exactly what about it was so much easier. Keyboard shortcuts are much quicker than an icon when you are already using the keyboard, which in an IM application is most of the time. Or so is the theory. If you want icons write a plugin to add them back, you can do it, we didn't stop you. And experience tells me that most gaim users are in fact rather like children, in the way they ask for help, in the way they respond to comments, in the things they want their IM clients to do, in the things they want their IM clients not to do, etc. When you have the years of IM user support that I (and the other gaim developers do) you can then tell us what IM users by and large do and do not want and do and do not think/feel. Until then, please don't assume what you want/think/feel is what everyone else does. (Did you know that until we got rid of the Send button many IM users didn't know you could send messages by hitting Enter?) To create a shortcut in gaim, hover over the menu item and push the key. Done. ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=665 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-forums mailing list Gaim-forums@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-forums
