Shoutbox

I'm going to respectfully disagree with most of you.  I really don't want my "special" contancts to disappear when offline, since they really are special (those of you with all your contacts sitting are your desktop really aren't using this as it was intended).  I may want to send an email or a comeback message to that special contact, even when he/she is offline.  Please Patchou, if you do implement this request, please make it optional, and not the default behavior.

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Originally posted by caldjeff
I'm going to respectfully disagree with most of you.  I really don't want my "special" contancts to disappear when offline, since they really are special (those of you with all your contacts sitting are your desktop really aren't using this as it was intended).  I may want to send an email or a comeback message to that special contact, even when he/she is offline.  Please Patchou, if you do implement this request, please make it optional, and not the default behavior.

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I myself agree with "caldjeff". If you want them to disappear when online then it's almost like the same thing as the normal MSN Contact List.

I have 5 people forming like another toolbar. I like to know when they are online or offline and be able to do the stuff that you can now when they are offline.

I just upgraded to the new version and this feature has made me a happy man. Especially once that bug with the "Always On Top" gets sorted .

By the way, hello everyone . Long time no post for me (busy busy busy ). I'm surprised I remembered my password .

Patchou: Good work on Plus!. I really like the way it's heading, keep up the good work man .

Thansk for the comments Alamarco2 . As for floating windows disappearing when contacts are offline, the option will be there in Plus! 3.21 (and yes, it will be an option, off by default).

on the contact list right click on a contact and hover over messenger plus extras then it should say display on desktop in the popout menu

Tools -> Always on top

then use the plus! options to make it transparent and bam, you have your floating list

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Originally posted by Patchou
Thansk for the comments Alamarco2 . As for floating windows disappearing when contacts are offline, the option will be there in Plus! 3.21

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Its a good thing that it isnt everything but online, because i know a few people that put their status to "away" when they dont want people to bug them ( i in fact do)

im glad to hear that it will be into plus 3.21, keep up the good work

On a related note, isn't the Always On Top function seriously bugged? (as per the 3.20.100 version) It seems to work in some completely random fashion. Suppose I have a couple of floating contacts, all with the On Top flag set. When I restart my computer, some or all contacts are not on top anymore, even though the checkmark in the menu is set. If I then change one of the not-on-top contacts, this also affects the other contacts. I usually need to toggle the flag for all the contacts to get them back on top.

This is with Win XP Pro Sp 2.

The Always On Top option has also been fixed in version 3.21 .... if you have the time to test it out, please email me at mplus@patchou.com, I want to be sure sure bug is fixed (and I never experienced the problem myself).

Thanks,
Patchou

glad to know that the Always on Top bug will be fixed on 3.21.

it seems to work when i dont want it to work (watching full screen in WMP) and when i need it to work, it doesnt work (ie viewing websites).

good thing i searched the forum before posting a new report.

One thing i did notice about the contacts on desktop. When i press the show desktop button in the quick launch toolbar, the contact dissappear and only come back if i open the contact list again then minimise it.

i really do like this feature though