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Originally posted by ahmetgns
Keikonium; so you are using StuffPlug's feature which let you type your display name on the contact list window. What if when you or others who use that display name feature of StuffPlug want to set some other statuses like "Be right back" or "In a call"?? Where will you click??
What has the use of StuffPlug's 'edit-name-in-place' feature to do with this (other than being an example of what he meant)??? Using this feature of StuffPlug will not remove the status menu, nor does it have any influence on it. People wanting to set another status still press the drop down button, StuffPlug installed or not.
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This implementation may cancel Statuses menu, and you may not access other menu items on that menu.
No... The menu will still be there as you can see in his example screen shots (notice the arrow)...
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This said, I don't see the advantage of such a 'typing-the-status' feature, I only see disadvantages.
If this is made you still need to click on the text box to enter the status name anyways. So why not simply click on the current existing drop down menu, and selecting your status like that??? It is way faster (instead of: click, typing, pressing enter)... You also wont accidently enter a typo and setting a custom status instead of a standard status, etc.
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'another way to select a status' I can understand the suggestion and it is quite an original idea. But it would be a longer way and the normal default way would become less easy to use (because you would only have a small arrow anymore to aim and click on).
As for quickly selecting custom Plus! statusses: Simply select 'away' and the custom status screen will pop up with the status name edit box already being focussed. From there you can either enter the new custom status name directly (thus which requires equally as much handlings as what you suggested!!!), or select a predefined custom status (which requires less handlings than your suggestion).
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