Shoutbox

One great feature would be to allow Messenger Plus! to sort the tabs.
The most frequent conversation could be put first.
Conversations that you have not had any activity in, for a while, would be put last.

This has to be an option that would be disabled by default!

Another suggestion, is that the tabs should be able to change order.
Just like tabs in Firefox 1.5 beta!

Not just last-used ordering, but also alphabetical and user-defined ordering.

id like for them to be able to drag and drop, like drag a tab convo to another location, kind of like the firefox extension

lol i personally think we should be happy there are tabs in the first place . but i agree they can definately be improved and built upon

We are very happy that there are tabs!
Now the developers can take them to the next step:

Ctrl+F8 sucks!
Users should be able to drag a tab out from the window.
Much better!

Some of these features sound nice, but you also have to think about the negatives. As for dragging tabs out from the window.. well i can see this would be annoying if you accidently clicked and you started ripping tabs off the window. For instance if you were clicking on "lordy16" to talk to him and you accidently held it down for a microsecond longer and moved the mouse and then he got ripped off the tabbed window .

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Originally posted by raceprouk

Not just last-used ordering, but also alphabetical and user-defined ordering.

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I can see alot of use for that , i'm sure if Tabs are popular (which i'm sure they are) Patchou will build upon the tabs and may include this .

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Originally posted by Hemo
The most frequent conversation could be put first.

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I'm sure we had a discussion on these sort of things while beta testing. I can only see this as more annoying then as helpful,  you could be talking to your contacts then suddenly their tab moves all around the window because they "become talked to more". If the tabs dont' move then its easy to remember what position they were in and its more user friendly as users can click in the same spot and expect the same conversation to appear. With this feature the positions of tabs would change all the time making it even harder to know where their tab is!

indeed. I'm for the idea of dragging your tabs around, but certainly _not_ for letting them automatically move and reorder! That would be annoying as hell and certainly not user friendly at all.

i've got 3 must updates for the tab functions.

1. lets say you are talking to two people. person 1 doesnt say anything while person 2 is talking with you but you have selected person 1 and surf with the chatwindow down, it doesnt highlight so you dont really know if any of the other 15 people your talking with is saying anything at the moment, annoying

2. to use the tab key to change chatwindow, maybe?

3. when you change chatwindow the window pops back down on the start-menu, would be nice if it didnt do that. maybe impossible what do i know?

i will not use tabs until their is a update with atleast number 1 solved. would be nice with 2 and 3 to.

1. I thought it did flash the taskbar button?
2. Tab is usually used to move between bits of a window, so this won't be implemented. Use Ctrl(+Shift)+Tab, which are standard tab-changing shortcuts.
3. Do you mean the caption on the taskbar button changes? I don't view that as a problem. Though it's possible to change the caption, it'll also change it for the window (if you have the frame visible).

3. i dont really understand what you mean but i mean that the chatwindow always moves to the end of the line of windows opened... you know? nothing huge but. rather anoying