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Originally posted by Jesus
I may have sounded rude, but that wasn't what I intended. All I tried to do was answering a question which was already answered a few times before. (I might have been a bit irritated at that time because of square87's "Be quite." [be quiet?], which IMO isn't the most polite way to reply to someone who is trying to help you...)
It's alright, and if you understood square87's "Be quite" as "Be quiet" I understand why you posted that way and I would have been even more rude if I were you. I don't know square87 much but so far, I've always seen him respectful, so when I saw that line, after reading it a few times and still not understanding it, I assumed he meant "not quite" as in "that's not quite right" followed by the "I'm not desperate etc...".
About the rest of your post, I'm happy to see that you like the interoperability idea. It would be nice indeed. I know how much work maintaining this product must be taking and I know for sure it's not going to be a top priority thing in Patchou's list, I don't mind, I personally don't care about the feature, and even if it's ready in a year time, I'm ok with it as long as we can answer users "it's being worked on, be patient".
In any case, this is a decision that must be taken by Patchou, and I can't wait to see his official answer on this matter.
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Originally posted by MeEtc
nope. plus does not host the sound pack files. A soundpack can be hosted anywhere, and there's even a community site made for this, created by Dempsey.
Ok, I didn't know that, thanks for the info.
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Originally posted by MeEtc
Oops! you're right. .plsc is a script.
Oh ok, then I assume to support the sound pack files, we would need access to the specifications of the soundpack files format. I don't know if Patchou would agree to that though...
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Originally posted by ahmetgns
If you ask for my opinion, MeEtc's second solution isn't worth to be called as a solution.To listen an emotisound, people should have been installed that sound before, it doesn't make any sense, in my opinion.
Yes it's not a solution but it's a workaround, and it's the best solution so far if we don't want to use up Patchou's bandwidth and if we want to minimize the amount of work.
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Originally posted by ahmetgns
Also why shall not Plus!'s emotisounds be the reason for people to switch to Live Messenger and Plus! Live? Or why do people from other chat clients insist on using Plus!'s emotisounds? Can't they setup their own sound database?
I didn't quite understand your statement. If you're saying why people won't switch to WLM and MP!L, I'd say that the majority of our community are *nix users (linux, BSD) and Mac users, and WLM and MP!L won't work on those platforms.
And why people from aMSN insist on using Plus! emotisounds? I'd say to piss me off
lol, seriously though, why would MP!L users want emotisounds? why WLM users like winks? it's all "eye-candy" extra features people like and find interesting, so users request this and as faithful to our users as we are, we try to find a solution to please them. Many contacts in our contact lists are using WLM with MP!L so many of them receive those emotisounds, and it is frustrating to receive something you can't view and explain over and over again "sorry, I can't get that, what was that supposed to mean?". The same applies with colored nicknames, so many of our users had their contact list unreadable because of all those tags in the nicknames and it's annoying a lot! thankfully, someone wrote a plugin to supported colored nicks.
And why not set up our own sound database? simple, we receive a sound from MP!L we can't play it because the database doesn't contain the sound! or we send a sound and the other user can't play it because MP!L doesn't have the sound from the amsn database.. Also, as I said, a sound database isn't the most optimal solution. Read my previous thread for more info.
And most importantly, the purpose of all this is to have interoperability, if we can't get interoperability, then we didn't solve the issue of "sorry, I can't get that, what was that supposed to mean?" our users are facing.
In short, emotisounds is a good feature, but not necessary for us to add, it becomes an issue when we receive those emotisounds and amsn doesn't know what to do with them, so users start freaking out. That's our need, and we need a solution for that, not just any solution that implements "yet another emotisounds feature", standardize, interop, that's the way to go in my opinion.
Thanks for reading.
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