I thought of a new way to change your status when I was editing my PSM.

To edit your PSM, you can just click it, and edit it right from the contact list. With stuffplug, you can do the same with the nickname. So why not have this option with the status? Clicking the status (instead of opening the menu to choose a status) will allow you to change your status by typing it in.

Maybe having "busy" or "online" etc typed in automatically set you to the corresponding status, and anything else, such as "upstairs" or "out with my girl" set a custom status name KEEPING whatever your current status was.

Does that make sense? Would anyone use it?

u can already have global shortcut for personal status's if thats what you mean. aka "ctrl + alt + x" can activate your personal "upstairs" status

and for the basic status's you can just type "/busy", "/away" etc in a conversation window

I mean clicking the status in the dashboard:


Then typing in what you want:


And having this as the final result:


Doing this could also automatically add this as a personal status. Obviously a limited one with no 'message' or timer or anything.

if you click away, then a plus options windows comes up. where u can set a "name tag" "persoanl message" & an "auto responder". yes it does take another couple of clicks, however gives you a few options to choose from.

see pic below

To be honest I quite like Keikonium's idea, it's a neat way of setting your status to whatever you want, whenever you want - I know that quite a few users would use it if it exists (and if they knew it existed ).

The whole thing would just make it so much more suitable, quick, and easy to do.

Thank you Volv ^_^. I know I'd use it. I rarely use messages, or timers, or PSM settings, so that window that toddy posted isn't accessed very often by me.

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Originally posted by Volv
To be honest I quite like Keikonium's idea, it's a neat way of setting your status to whatever you want, whenever you want - I know that quite a few users would use it if it exists (and if they knew it existed ).

The whole thing would just make it so much more suitable, quick, and easy to do.

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Originally posted by Keikonium
so that window that toddy posted isn't accessed very often by me.

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Originally posted by toddy
takes 2 extra clicks to bring up the away menu. hardly time saving it is, maybe 0.5s for the clicks, n another couple of secs to change the display name and click personalize

so a hold 2.5/3 secs

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Originally posted by toddy
takes 2 extra clicks to bring up the away menu. hardly time saving it is, maybe 0.5s for the clicks, n another couple of secs to change the display name and click personalize

so a hold 2.5/3 secs

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Yes, I understand that it can be done another way - but the way which Keikonium suggested is so much more simple, effective, natural, easy to do and understand, and blends in with messenger well.

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Bottom line is that it was only a suggestion . If ever implemented, you don't have to use it, and it wont interfere with your messenger use. There are a few ways to access various features in messenger and plus!; this just adds abother .

I like it, would be good to have .

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Originally posted by toddy
well i think it would be pretty pointless. wouldn't make it much more simple (as the current way is simple), would save a few seconds at most, and you would lose the added options.

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Bottom line is that it was only a suggestion . If ever implemented, you don't have to use it, and it wont interfere with your messenger use.

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Bottom line is that it was only a suggestion . If ever implemented, you don't have to use it, and it wont interfere with your messenger use.

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yes it would, as i'm quite sure that for it to be added. the status button would have to be broken up into 2 parts. a text box and a drop down button. thus meaning i've have a much smaller area to click on for the basic status options. which could take a few more seconds

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Originally posted by Keikonium
true... if you enabled this option .

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But this way you won't be able to specify Busy or Away? And when you don't have a personal status set, will you be able to edit your normal status like Online, Busy, Away, etc? Feature might sound good but would be very hard to implement.

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?? This implementation may cancel Statuses menu, and you may not access other menu items on that menu. Although it will bring some advantages, we must consider the disadvantages too.

I don't think it does that, ahmet

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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??

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This implementation may cancel Statuses menu, and you may not access other menu items on that menu.

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As well as that, in the new 8.5 beta the nickname and status are handled by the same container, so it could be very hard to implement.

I think it's a neat-ish feature though, it'd look cool... but I hardly ever use personalised statuses anyway (maybe its from years of using bash on Linux, but I like to just /away <auto responder>).