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Originally posted by Joe771
Thanks for your replys. Thats what I thought and it does seem like a shame. Perhaps plus could have an advanced custom name option or something. I think it would be quite difficult to implement without completely overriding the WLM custom names with the old plus style (which wasn't exactly user friendly) but even then you've got conflicts with the whole user details thing which has been added to WLM.
not nessecairly....
The "new" custm names could be integrated in the existing WLM nickanme feature. All it would take is that Plus! interperts the shown nicknames in the contactlist and convo's, more specifically the color codes and (!N)/(!M) tags which you have set in WLM's own nickname feature, and replaces them with the correct colors, screenname and/or emailadres.
Nothing different than how it was before... (in fact a bit easier as no GUI should be provided with it as you can use WLM's own contact info window)
The big problem here is: How should Plus! uniquely identify the nicknames so it knows what to fill in in the (!N) and (!M) tags (colors aren't the problem).
In Plus!3 this was done by automatically setting the contactlist so it showed the emails. Emails are unique, so Plus! used that to identify which custom name belonged to what user and thus could fill in the (!N) and (!M) tags.
With the
"add custom names to WLM's nickname feature" system, as described above, this isn't possible as you can have the same nickname for several contacts, thus not uniquely....
But, maybe it is still possible to automatically show the contactlist with emails (just as before) and grab WLM's nickname via the known emailadres of the contact and interpret it that way....
Dunno, just wild guessing here...
I do hope he finds a way though.... The custom name feature is/was popular just because of the use of the (!N) and (!M) tags, IMO.
Also, the current WLM's nickname feature is as 'friendly' as the custom names feature of Plus!3 though. I don't see how you can make it more friendlier than that. You always will need to fill out a nickname/custom name contact per contact...
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