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

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 06:38:20PM +0200, Martin Leopold wrote:
> 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...

this is a good place. 

> 
> 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? 

you mention a panel applet, that was discontinued with 0.59.9, what 
version are you using? in 0.60 and latter it was replaced with a system 
tray icon, that i think will do more nearly what you describe. 

> 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.

a new message icon in the buddy list will not happen any time soon. 

> 
> 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.

this could be done, talk to robot101. 

> 
> 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.

this is not optional. 

> 
> 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 =]

i believe sf archives this list. 

> 
> 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?

again, this sounds like you are using an old version. it shows up pretty 
obviously in 0.60.  

as for help, we have someone who is (VERY SLOWLY) working on some docs, 
but it won't be gnome-help, as we are not part of the gnome project. 
luke

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