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Originally posted by CookieRevised
No it shouldn't be.
As explained, when you close the convo the connection is lost and no "user is typing" message is send to you. In other words it is not possible for the desktop contacts to show any indicating if the user is typing if there are no conversation windows open.
The only possebility for this is that the desktop contact feature constantly keeps an connection open to those contacts, which goes totally against the policy of MSN to close a connection when they are idle and/or not in use to save bandwidth.
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PS: there is no such thing as a soft-connection. It iether is a permanent (flooding servers!?) connection, or not.
Also, IMHO, I don't think the feature on its own (if it was possible) would be that usefull. Also, what's next? having the ability to type something in the desktop window to send to your contacts? It more and more goes towards just another conversation window. Thus rather totally useless. If you want to know more info about contacts (current DP, etc) or the conversation, open the conversation window itself, that what it is there for. The dekstop contacts shouldn't be a replacement for all the stuff you see/can do in a conversation.
I'm not asking for it to be a complete replacement man... I just figured it would be a pretty neat utility to have within the desktop contact box. Much like the guy above showed... The whole "it wouldn't be useful and shouldn't be done" argument is kinda harsh, seeing as you can completely go against that statement by saying that seeing a contact type in a normal window is just as useless; cause you'll get the message when you get the message.
Seeing if they're typing to you within the desktop contact bar would be just as bit useful as seeing if they're typing to you in a regular window.
What if instead of having it display when they're typing if the box is closed, if maybe you had the chat windows opened, but minimized to the taskbar, and it would then show you for whichever contact it is you have on the desktop.
So, say I am talking to Joe and I have Joe added as a desktop contact. Also, I have Joe's conversation window open, but minimized. You could have it so that the desktop bar would display when he's typing a response so that I wouldn't have to keep going back and forth to the chat window to see if he ever read what it is that I said.
