Sorting could have its uses but would not solve everything. For example, it would still take forever to identify how many new messages were pending in a conversation with a person of long name or mood text, if the message count were to move back to the end of the spoken info.
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 09:56:40PM -0400, Roy Nickelson wrote: Sounds like a good place for sortable columns Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 6, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Doug Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > I must respectfully disagree on the preferred order of information, > and I specifically asked Microsoft to put the unread message count > first, because I believe most people skim through their conversation > list most often to find where there unread messages are. I think the > current order of information in the conversation list is most > sensible. > > What I would like changed, though, is where the status of message > delivery is read. It is currently last, but I wand to hear, "Not > delivered" first, before the message text, because otherwise it takes > me a long time to figure out if my messages have been seen yet. I have > not requested this, but I probably will. > > On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 03:24:57AM -0700, Jim Grimsby JR. wrote: > Hi, wonderful 6.9 now provides information on what type of contact is being > dealt with. Considering the fact I was the most vocal about this problem > allow me to be the most vocal about the fact it was solved. Yes I am so so > happy. I now know with out having to jump threw hoops what kind of contact > I am dealing with. > > I also like the fact skype wil now inform the user how many unread messages > you have with each contact. > > I do have a point to bring up about this though. It is nice skype provides > this information how jaws reads it how ever is a problem if you ask me. Not > really how jaws reads it but where it is read. > > Right now you here x number of unread messages then the users name skype id > user status mood text. For example 3 unread messages jim Grimsby jr. > [email protected] call me any time. > > I think you should here users name skype id user status mood text number > of unread messages. For example jim Grimsby [email protected] online > call me any time 3 unread messages. > > This makes more scence reading it with speech. > > It also puts the information in its most important order. For example it > doesn't really matter what the mood text says if the user is off line. It > also doesn't matter what the unread message count is if the mood text says > in a meating all morning only contact me if you or some one I love is on his > death bed. > > I love the work so far and don't want to nit pick but I thought it was at > least warth bringing to everyones attention. > > Hth > > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. > > to contact skype support wiht any questions regarding your account email > [email protected] > > To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > > > To contact the list owner send a message to > mailto:[email protected] > > and for a searchable archives page go here. > http://bit.ly/64Y48 > > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > [email protected] > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > > -- > Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org > SSB BART Group [email protected] > http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "It's not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish > it after the age of six." --John W. 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