Shoutbox

Hi all

I'm here to post my concerns about a feature in msn/wlm that has disappeared.

It might have been a while since this feature changed,
then again, I don't use it very often, but when you need it, it's quite easy.

We used to be able to share the background picture we could choose for ourselves in our chat windows, and for each contact individually!
Now I happen to have a nice picture that works great as a background (because of the colors) that I would like to share with the concerned contact,
so he can immediately apply it as his chat background picture for me as well.

An easy background share would be way easier than locating the file - sending the file - for the other contact to receive the file - locate the file - and add it as a background.

In my search I have found that this option (originally in msn) has been deleted because of the "scenes"...
Which is something totally different from the background pictures if you ask me.

In short, here are my questions:
-Is it true that you can't share background pictures anymore, or have I overlooked something?
-Does there happen to be a script I don't know of that allows this?
-Could Plus! make this deleted option by WLM possible again?

Greets

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Originally posted by hard2find
-Is it true that you can't share background pictures anymore, or have I overlooked something?
-Does there happen to be a script I don't know of that allows this?
-Could Plus! make this deleted option by WLM possible again?

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Unsure, No and No

Backgrounds are now only locally applied.
Scenes are (automatically) pushed to your contacts.

If you want to share a background you need to create a scene and use that instead.
(from the main contatclist menu: Tools > Change your scene)

But contacts can always override the background and/or scene by setting their own:

Backgrounds can be set per contact (in a convo window > Tools > Backgrounds > Set) or for all the contacts (in a convo window: Tools > Backgrounds > Set Default).

Scenes can not be overriden per contact. Switching to the default scene (in a convo window: Tools > Use default scene) overrides the scene of all your contacts.