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The development on gnomeciu seems to have woken up a bit. If you dont
need AOL-compatability i'd rather suggest that. It's much smaller, and to
my personal opinion it seems less buggy. (you'll need to get the package
that is in testing for the newer version with pseudo-chat-mode or
whatever you choose to call it)
> OK. I've tried. It can.
> It's a pitty it can't send files, though.
>
> But I still think it would be a nice feature to be able to at least
> place some dedicated status icons for a some select contacts on a panal,
> whith the ability to initiate a message to them by clicking on their
> icons...
>
> Balazs
>
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:09:05PM +0100, Balazs Javor wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Thanks! Does it work with the new ICQ protocol?
>>
>>best regards,
>>Balazs
>>
>>On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 05:56:28PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>>>On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:10, Balazs Javor wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are two features I've been missing / would like to have in ICQ,
>>>> but I havn't found any implementation with either... So I thought I
>>>> bring this up, maybe somebody knows one, or gets an idea for
>>>> implementing one :)
>>>>
>>>> 1. The Windows client allow for a pseudo chat like view of the
>>>> messages exchanged with somebody and if your counterpary sends
>>>> several messages in short (or long) time they will automatically
>>>> appear on the top half of the window. In all (working) Linux client
>>>> I've seen you need to press the next message button if a new message
>>>> arives. This is a bit inconvenient as I don't always notice them at
>>>> first and may be replying to only part of the message :(
>>>>
>>>> 2. I have only relatively few friends on my contact list, so it would
>>>> be very nice if it could somehow be completely integrated into the
>>>> Gnome panel. Maybe similar to the taskview applet or something like
>>>> that... That way there would be no need to open up the separate ICQ
>>>> window to see the status of a couple of peole at a glane and to be
>>>> able to quickly start conversations with them or send files etc...
>>>> For me a panel applet woulf be an ideal place for it. Unfortunatelly
>>>> allthough some clients (GnomeICU etc.) have a panel applet they only
>>>> display a very small summary number and don't allow much directly
>>>> beside changing my status quickly...
>>>
>>>Well that's certainly intersting... you've just described Gaim... :)
>>>You can have an IM style chat window for ICQ, AND it comes with a gnome
>>>panel applet. You click the applet, your contact list pops up. Click
>>>again, it's gone. The applet will also graphically show your current
>>>status. Best of all, it works with AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber, and probably
>>>quite a few other protocols that I know nothing about. :)
>>>
>>>-Alex
>>
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