Hello. I would want this really much, since I don't talk to some on my contact list so much - but I still want them on my contact list. So I thought of this fine tool, MSG Plus!

On day-time I have just too many contacts online, and it's a bit annoying when I only need to talk to two or three.

It would be great if something like hide contacts / group would be added.
Then we could turn it on or off as we'd like. Like preferences for each contact or something. Something like "Desktop Contacts" in MSG Plus!

Anyone would like this?

If i get what you mean, y don't you just put the contacts u wanna hide in a new group called "hide" or something and keep that group minimized ?

click the button to hide the certain group the + and - ones

I like the offline, online thing. If I could hide certain contacts, it would be great Not moving them to a group called hide..

Like, I have sorted some into groups for remembering them better.
Family, Friends, School, Ex, Internet, etc...

Other than by creating a new group, i don't believe that's there antother way to hide contacts from the list.

Well, MDX is supposed to hide the "Mobile" group for an instance, but it has never worked for me.
But I think it could be useful to be able to hide groups, I have 14 of them, counting the "Mobile" and "Offline" ones, they get too much of the main window space and I like the main window to be small enough so it doesn't take too much desktop space.
The thing is that I don't need to see the "Mobile" and "Offline" group because I don't use the SMS system nor the "Send e-mail" to offline people.

I think jannar85's suggestion is a great idea.

So you want something like Hide Offline Contacts but for the main contact list not just for desktop contacts?

Yeah that's right!
Hide any group we want in the Main Contact Window.

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Originally posted by jannar85
I like the offline, online thing. If I could hide certain contacts, it would be great Not moving them to a group called hide..

Like, I have sorted some into groups for remembering them better.
Family, Friends, School, Ex, Internet, etc...

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Originally posted by Impheatus
Yeah that's right!
Hide any group we want in the Main Contact Window.

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I'm thinking more by the lines of miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org/)
With that IM, we can customize the whole hide-thing. Hide contacts that appear away, etc.. It wouldn't be so hard to add that to the great messenger plus? Or..?

Their option-screen is like this:

"Hide offline" means to hide:
Offline, Online, Away, NA, occupied, Out to lunch etc..

And by hide, I'm not thinking of MSN's stupid grouping options.
But I'd see potential in getting this added. User-defined.

tbh, Miranda isn't MSN Messenger. And I can think of a douzen things that the people of Miranda could implement and add to the already existing features. The point is, this is MSN Messenger, and it works like it works and has already tons of possebilities.

People will always come up with strange new stuff to add which only a few people would actually use (I wonder how many people actually use or even know the build-in features of MSN Messenger regarding this...). Some suggestions are so specific or are so extremely close to already existing features that it is useless to add them, unless you wanna bloat a program.

In MSN Messenger (and also in combination with Plus!) there are already many ways you can do what is suggested in this thread. Simply learn to use and get used to them.

I very strongly doubt something will be added for this in Messenger Plus!...

If you wanna hide offline contacts, select the option I mentionned in my previous post and hide the offline group. It can't be easier than that as it is already there and does exactly what you want.

Ok, here is the difference:
- "Hide" is NOT the same as "collapse"
- "Show" is NOT the same as "expand"

Maybe with the screenshots you can understand what we are trying to explain.

That is the actual size of my Main contact list (MCL), and I'm using the option to "Show large display pictures". I don't want to make my MCL bigger, that's big enough for me.
The groups take almost all the height of the MCL. If I want to expand a group that is almost at the end of the list, like in my case, the "TEC" group, I would only be able to see 3 users without having to scroll the window down.
The thing is that I usually don't use the "CS", "Familia", "Internet", "Otros", "Queretanas", "Torreon", "Mobile"and "Offline" groups BUT I want them in case I need to talk to one of the users inside one of this groups.
If those groups had the option to be hidden, then I would be able to see more users at the same time without having to scroll the window and my MCL would not look bloated of groups.

(Check screenshot)

Or maybe if a tree view could be implemented, then we could place "Useless" groups in the "Useless" main group.

Then rename your groups so they aren't listed first

LOL!
It's a nice idea, but you have to admit that "hidding" groups is also a good suggestion.