Re: [Gaim-devel] A question and an offer, re: MSN functionality

[Christian H. <ch...@gn...>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:13:55AM -0400, Kris Newman wrote:
> Hoping this is the place to make this request, if not, please tell me to
> go pound sand...

Go pound sand, but do it only for fun. This is the right place.

> Is it possible to configure Gaim to send the selected away message when
> on MSN? It works great in AIM, but it doesn't under MSN. This is one of
> the nicest features in Trillian, and IMO, the one thing missing from
> Gaim. I'm a fairly recent convert from Windows-land, and Gaim was pretty
> central to my being able to make the switch. I use MSN for work, and the
> ability to send the away message is extremely helpful.

Sean's reply is better than my "I don't know."

> And if not...
> 
> Is there anyone on this list who would consider writing a patch for the
> gaim-applet on a free-lance basis? 
> 
> I'd be willing to pay for that functionality, with the hope that such a
> patch could be considered for inclusion into the next version of Gaim.

I can port my "everybody_happy" dance patch, but it won't give you
that feature.

Er, I also noticed that Luke beat me to this reply too, so I guess you
can use this e-mail of mine as a reference to the other two e-mails
that you probably can't miss in your mail client.

Going to go pound sand. Have a good day.

Christian

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