Re: [Gaim-devel] Crazy MSN Icons

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:52:33 +0800, Allan Clark wrote
> On 7/11/06, Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:46:54 -0400 (EDT), Adil wrote
> > > --- Mark Doliner <ma...@ki...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've been wondering what the overlay icons mean on
> > > > this MSN buddy.  There's a
> > > > red X in the bottom right corner and there is a big
> > > > circle with a slash
> > > > through it.  What do they mean?
> > >
> > > The red X means the same as "Has you: No" in the
> > > tooltip, ie. you are not in his/her buddylist. The
> > > big-circle with a slash through it means you have
> > > blocked the buddy.
> >
> > Alright, I removed the overlay icon for "has you."  The information is still
> > in the tooltip.  I don't think it's very important for Gaim to show whether
> > other people have you in their buddy list.
> 
> Possible to make this configurable?  There seems to be a bit of a
> split as to whether it should be there or not.

Yes, it's possible, but unlikely.  It's more likely that we would just add the
X back in.  However, that would only happen if many many many users complain
that the feature is missing.  Counting the number of people in favor versus
the number of people against probably isn't very accurate in this case,
because I don't think many people are going to say, "hey, this little red X is
annoying the sap out of me!"  It's more likely they would just see the little
red X and not know what it means, and then they'll feel a little more
alienated from Gaim.  "Oh boy, this 'Gaim' program sure is complicated.  So
many doodads and thingamajigs!  I'm going to go back to using Windows
Messenger, where I feel safe and welcome."

-Mark