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caldjeff
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O.P. Long lost features
There are two things that I miss so badly from my earl IM days (on ICQ).

1. You used to be able to right click the Messenger status tray icon and as a part of the context menu, you saw a list of all online contacts.  Clicking on a contact would bring up a message window.  This was soooooo nice since it saved you a click or two.

2. Probably a little tougher to do.  I loved the old ICQ "float" feature where you could select special contacts and float them on your desktop.  A right click on their floating name would bring up the regular menu with send message as first option.  Double clicking the float would bring up a message window.

Both of these are so badly missed since I IM a very small number of people all day long.

The other thing I really need is a quick ping function.  My colleagues and I work in cubicles and often shout at each other to get someone's attention.  Problem is, we often have headphones on and can't hear the call.  I want a one click ping so a toast pops up that says "ping" so the user knows I'm trying to get his attention, but I don't have to open a message window and type "hey" and click send.

I know, I'm asking alot.  Are there any plugins to do any of this?  If not....Patchou Please!!!

Jeff
06-02-2004 06:57 PM
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RE: Long lost features
for the ping thing, if ur all on a network there are probably programs that do that for you,

or u could just use net send to ping each other
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06-02-2004 07:17 PM
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RE: Long lost features
i think the right click sounds lieka brilliant idea! could there be a plugin 2 this? if it possible then make it sounds cool
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06-03-2004 09:41 AM
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could there be a plugin 2 this?
No a plugin could not do this...
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06-03-2004 09:45 AM
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RE: Long lost features
o, okay but it is a really gd thing maybe microsoft oculd put it into msn on ythe nxt version (:
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06-03-2004 10:08 AM
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O.P. RE: Long lost features
I doubt MS will include it in the next version since they intentionally removed this feature from past versions.  I guess they want us to spend more time looking at windows with MS logos on them...
06-03-2004 02:07 PM
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