From: Youness A. <zy...@ho...> - 2003-09-23 22:25:01
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Hi, As the others said, no more options for this kind of feature. But make the option available in the config file. I was thinking about adding a button "Advanced" in some of the preferences tab. Or maybe an"expert mode" but I think the advances button is better. That would show us a new window whith buttons, and you could select what exactly you want to tweak. We need to move alot of things from the preferences window. Anyways, that's not your question. For truncating nicknames, do as burger said, a fixed length to which we would truncate the nicks... Now about that custom nicknames.. no options for it anywhere. I think just a menu entry in the contact list when clicking on someone shoudl say "Set screen name" or whatever, and you clik on it, it changes the nickname of that person, to remove it, the user would only need to change that nickname again to an empty string. It should be saved in the contats.xml file, where it saves the cached contact list info. It would be in the FL entry, an example of it : <user> <email>xx...@ho...</email> <nickname>Real nickname</nickname> <gid>2</gid> <PHH> </PHH> <PHW> </PHW> <PHM> </PHM> <MOB></MOB> <custom> Custom nickname </custom> </user> But since we still have some problems with the cached contact list, I will first correct that bug, so that it will never be corrupted. Should be done by tonight. You can work on it independantly.. I hope this is a good idea. btw, we should think about adding it to the FAQ when it's finished. KaKaRoTo _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail |