[Gaim-devel] Questions/requests from a new convert

[Martin L. <mle...@ti...>]

Hi All.
I just recently switched to using Gaim from my old IM-client (GnomeICU) 
and I have a few questions and perhaps a few requests. I don't know if 
this is the right forum, but there were no other lists on Sourceforge...

Each time someone sends me a message it pops up in my face. Is it 
possible to delay the messages until I click ex. the panel applet? 
There is a plugin that does this more or less, but it delays messages 
even if I have the conversation window open.. It would seem more 
natural to me if messages got delayed only if the conversation window 
was closed. The ideal for me would be if both the panel-applet and the 
buddy list each flashed a "new message" icon. The Buddy list could 
flash the icon next to the sender.

GnomeICU displayed a summary count of how many of your contact were 
online in the applet - I really liked that. Also it displayed a short 
list of the contacts in the tool-tip menu which was prety neat as well.

Each time I close/open my IM window Gaim inserts a "new conversation" 
log.. Is it possible to switch that off? I open/close the conversation 
window many times during a conversation. The loggin allso tries to keep 
mesages related to a conversation together - this doesn't make sense 
when opening and closing the window during a conversation.

Mailing lists on website: it would be nice if there was a more obvious 
way of getting to the lists other than going to the projects page on 
Sourceforge. Also an archive would be nice - this might save some 
questions from people like me =]

Documentation - I switched to Gaim for the multi-protocol features. 
Being new to MSN it wasn't obvious were what had to go in the 
"accounts" editor. Some documentation would be nice perhaps in the 
gnome-help system?

-- 
Regards Martin Leopold.
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen