I agree with Chris4
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Originally posted by riahc4
- A rewritten Plus! Chat Log
You can already change the layout of chat logs if you whish (its XML), so please explain further.
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Originally posted by riahc4
- Aliases (example: If you want /away to be /awayinyourlanguagehere. I know it is possible with Quick Texts and possibily a script but...)
but what? As you said so yourself, you already have aliases, namely Quick Texts.
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Originally posted by riahc4
- Remove some old commands (example: Only away and busy are now statuses so things like /brb should be removed)
As long as such statusses are possible, those commands should remain! Many people still use them and some clients still show them.
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Originally posted by riahc4
- Remove Contact List Clean-up (until Microsoft fixes this I think it should be removed to stop confusing people)
Although I can see your point, I don't think it should be removed at all as long as the Reverse List can be checked out in Messenger itself. The Contact List Clean-up is more than just a simple 'Reverse List' list and is way more convenient to manage contacts than what Messenger offers. It is not because there is a problem with one column in the Contact List Clean-up window that the whole thing should be removed.
It could use some GUI changes though, so that people aren't too confused about it. But that will be done anyways for everything in Plus!.
This said, in the long run it will be changed anyways because the whole friends/buddy system in Messenger itself is probably going to change anyways to accomodate better integration with more networks (and part of those changes are already in place, hence the current problems with the reverse list - but I never said this, you haven't heared it from me).
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Originally posted by riahc4
- Fix the OK/Apply button "problem"
What problem? There is no problem...
People do use the 'apply' button when they want to change something without closing the window. 'Power' users and helpers quite often use that instead of 'OK'. Personally I would find it extremely annoying when there is only an 'OK' button which immediatly closes the window. It would make troubleshooting and helping people a lot harder and more annoying (especially when registry stuff is involved).
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Originally posted by riahc4
- Add new and more complex commands
(Examples:
/maximize would maximize your window.
/nextchat would go to the next chat window that you opened.
/nexttab would go to the next tab in the window.
etc...
As Chris4 said most of what you listed is useless. You have either shortcuts for that, or they simply require one or a double click of mouse (eg: maximizing, etc.).
People are well used to working with keyboard and mouse together as it is way more faster and efficient. Keyboard-only junkies are extremely rare. But if you really really want it, you can still make scripts for such things. For the average user such commands are completely pointless.
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The only thing I find usefull and interesting at first sight is the suggestion for intellisense for commands.
Although some things are hard to do. Eg: your example of /sendmsg isn't the best one because opening a 'small' window with contacts to send a message to will be troubelsome if you have like 200 contacts. However, it is another thing when it is implemented as an auto-complete and only after a maximum number of contacts are filtered already by what you have typed, the popup will show. Because a popup as large as your screen isn't very helpfull.
And now that I think about it, from the top of my head I don't know any commands (except for something like a new /status command or whatever) which would actually benefit from such a popup window. For most existing commands it is either pointless to list something (as the list would be way too big) or there isn't anything to list at all.
But the idea is nice for possible future commands. But for the existing commands there isn't any command which would need it.
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PS: There are already many threads with lists of suggestions for a future Plus! version. Why didn't you read and posted in those? This thread will simply turn into yet another list of often repeated and already discussed stuff.
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