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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by nx01rules
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Originally posted by -Buffy
maybe i risk that you guys get mad or think i am stupid.
maybe because i am not english speaking but i did not fully understand the difference between conversation and session notfier. also what the difference is to the one of the last version (the plugin).
There is no difference - it just has a different name - it was renamed to stop the people who didn't know how it worked from asking for help, even when it was explained correctly to them dozens of times. It functions as a window open notifier, but it also functions to let you know when the other person's msn connects to yours to download your display picture or something like that. Just like the old stuffplug one did.
I'm sorry but that is not correct and totally misleads the user (and exactly the thing I warned and whined about previously).
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Buffy, there IS a big difference between a window notifier and a session notifier.
Some years ago a window notifier could tell you when someone opened or closed a conversation window with you. However, this no longer works reliable at all since Microsoft changed some stuff in the underlying protocol which those plugins/addons used to detect the opening and closing.
Therefore they no longer function properly as only a window notifier. What they effectivly do is notifying the user when a session is openend or closed.
A session is a connection between you and a contact. And it is created not only when a conversation window is opened, but also when your contact views your contact card, display picture, etc. (it used to be only when a conversation window was opened). And there is no possebility to see what exactly has triggered the session.
Hence such tools do not work anymore as pure window notifiers and therefore shouldn't be called like that either.
so the name had be be changed because now if someone looks at my contact card it tells me also?
well i think that is faboulus. i mean if the person is gonna talk to me i would find out eventually. but if he just opens to see my pic, i get the messege for a good reason. and same is with the contact card.
ok maybe its not necessary a window like a conversation but to have to change the name?
well ok. but really you guys shoulnd get to picky about the name and function. if we would like we could all just call it: the when someone openes a conversation, or when someone...., or someone... notifier.
so just lets be happy that finally someone made it,w hile a few weeks ago some where saying that noone will do it because everyone jsut complaints and gives to thanks.
[Beta] Session Open Notifier for WLM (Formally known as Window Open Notifier)
