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Originally posted by Kromitvs
Different profiles for different groups.
Well, I've found it's difficult to make different groups see different names/pictures of my self. But that would be great.
as said before:
Not possible due the way the protocol works.
addendum:
Your contacts get your screenname thru the servers. The servers only store 1 name.
The best thing you can hope for is a chat-only name, where contacts can see a different name of yours. But this would be only in a conversation.
The chat-only name feature is an option of the Messenger Plus! Plugin:
StuffPlug-NG
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
Name/Personal quote history/chooser. Like the one Messenger has already for your personal picture. Allowing you to keep a record of old ones, and choose it again. And simple.
Isn't a really usefull feature IMO (note: most features of Plus! are usefull for the general public, hence why they are added and others not).
Furthermore, something like this can easly be programmed with a plugin. In fact, several plugins already exist where you can choose/select/save several quotes, name histories, etc.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
I have a lot of smiles (have I told that before!?). Some of them replace words (I have this guy saying "no" that replaces my no's). This is a lot of fun (...)
Personal note: a hell of a lot of people find this very annoying.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
(...) and starts resembling hieroglyphic writing. Witch is fine. Except when I am talking about something really serious or trying to explain a complex thought (well... it could happen!!!). How about if I had a profile with all of them, and another without? And I could change? (and choose different ones for different groups/contacts, or to apply a different hours?)
An option to temporarly disable emoticons doesn't exist. It's either always disabling them, or always enabling them.
However, with Messenger Plus! you can send text without parsing the custom emoticons. To do this use the "/noicon" command.
See the
official help pages for more:
commands & tags
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
I have a lot of winks (ye,ye...). How about a list of them by categories? Being able to change their name? Loading them in less then the 2 minutes it now takes? Being able to install and uninstall them in a really simple way? Having them replacing some expressions?
Best added by MSN Messenger itself, not by Messenger Plus!.
Furthermore, the loading time is something nobody can do anything about it. What needs to be loaded, needs to be loaded. If either the wink is too big or your computer is too slow, I'd suggest to not use that wink or upgrade your computer.
Also, again, please do not use such things (just like the custom emoticons) to automatically replace normal text/expressions!!!!!! This is the cause of extremely many annoyances. Very many people do not like this kind of stuff.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
A notification when someone comes back from being idle/away.
In Messenger Plus! you can already set custom notifications per contact when they change status.
In Messenger Plus! Live this feature will still exist and with the new scripting engine it would be even dead easy to create your own.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
An option to see when someone is idle and not away!
Can be done with a lot of patches, or even by a simple manual patch done by yourself.
See:
Matty's reply to Is it possible or anyway of telling the real status of the contact??
Furthermore, in Messenger Plus! Live this will be an build-in option.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
MP innovated with this sounds gadget. How about smiles with sound? Or will winks become the next smiles?
Again already possible with the build-in sounds.
See the
official help pages for more:
commands & tags
Simply add the emoticons and/or text of your choice after the sound command.
For custom sounds, create a quicktext which contains of the emoticons and/or text of your choice and as a second command the sound you want to play. For that, see:
CookieRevised's reply to Integrated Sound Creator
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
Finally, how about a simple/advanced option for the options menu? I really feel is becoming more complex. The option to leave some options to very advanced/registry tweakers seems wrong to me... but that's just my opinion.
Not all advanced options are usefull for the general public (in fact, very little are). The menus would be waaaay too complex if those are also included.
Vice versa, the menu items shown contain some of the most used function for Messenger Plus!, hence why they are added in those menu's.
as said before:
Use
Choli's Plus! Tweaker to easly alter the advanced settings in a comforteable and safe way.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
How about including some plugins? Like the log viewer? (txt log?...who can read that)
No, same reason as for other not much used stuff.
Not everybody has a use for certain plugins. It might be usefull to you, but not usefull to other people. Stuff added to Plus! must be usefull for the general public. Including plugins will also increase the download size of the setup package, while on the same time not everybody will install those included plugins.
as said before:
Moreover, there is already a log viewer included in Messenger Plus!. And in Messenger Plus! Live, the integrated log viewer is even drastically improved making the use of an external log viewer program redundant.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
Nicknames improving? I saw revolving nicks in another plugin. How about other types of changing nicks? (simple ones: reversed/normal, graphic/motion illusion ->--, -->-, --->, etc; or complex, where users write a list of nicks and plus changes them every X seconds).
No.
Again, nick scrollers and that sort of stuff are highly annoying for most people. Moreover they (have the potential to) flood the servers (and thus making it even harder for other people to chat in a normal way as the whole thing will slow down eventually). Such (potential flood) things will never be included in Messenger Plus!.
Though, there are some plugins which alter the nickname in some ways and even plugins which will change your nick every x seconds. Please search the (plugin) forums for those first.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
How about video and/or audio log? (I know about Camtasia and privacy concerns, but if I can have a log of a conversation for later reference, why not of the video and/or audio?
Because logging an video and/or audio stream isn't that easy and strait forward as simply logging text. Moreover it would require much diskspace if frequently used.
as said before:
The upcomming new version of
StuffPlug is said to include a webcam recorder.
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
Logging soundpacks send/received would be great too.
Soundpacks are simply files like any other file. When files are send thru MSN Messenger these events can already be logged in the chat logs if you have ticked that specific option in Messenger Plus! (Logging > Chat Logging > Record contact activities).
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Originally posted by Kromitvs
And just before you start making fun of my "right endings", just remeber... I've hearded before, right?
right.... But you didn't search the forum first before asking all these questions, right?