Shoutbox

Don't know if it's me or my system but I can't seem to get the show contacts as idle instead of away when appropriate ,  it's a clean install no patches etc.

anybody else had this? or know of a fix? or is it just a bug seeing as this version is still in beta?

Thanks

John

I can't confirm this.

Are you sure that any of your contacts should be showing as idle?

To do a test, ask one of your contacts to set themselves to auto-away after 1 minute, then to leave their computer un-touched

on your computer wait for the colour around their display picture to change to orange, then check the name of the status next to their screenname and it should read 'Idle'

I was actually just testing that very thing, my daughter is online i asked her to allow it to go idle and it just went 'away' and not idle, also if i hover over the contacts that are showing away it says idle in the pop-up info (for the want of it's correct terminology)

This is in Vista, dunno if that has any bearing on it, but i'm sure when i installed it on a friends xp Laptop it worked, I can't be 100% sure though and I don't have access to it atm.

So the pop-ups were displaying 'idle', but the text next to the display name in a conversation windows was just saying 'away'?

I can't confirm this.  I've just checked a contact and the 'idle' appears in both the pop-up on mouse-over and next to their display name in the conversation window.

I'm on Vista too.

hmm very odd, if no one else is getting it it must be my end, although i have no idea where.

thanks anyway.

In Messenger 2009, MEssenger Plus! cannot display "Idle" in the contact lias as before, that's why it adds "(Idle)" in the tooltip that is displayed when you hover on a contact. In chat windows though, the Idle tag works as before.

Ah Ha, had me confused that one did, thanks for the info Patch, will you be able to make it work in the future?

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Originally posted by ratsalad
In Messenger 2009, MEssenger Plus! cannot display "Idle" in the contact lias as before, that's why it adds "(Idle)" in the tooltip that is displayed when you hover on a contact.

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In fact, Messenger Plus! still does the same thing, changes only the tooltip's text to (Idle). There wasn't a label thing for statuses on previous versions of WLM anyway, iirc. Still we would like to see Plus! handles the new labels as well