Re: New PSMs (Was: Re: DPs in CL broken)

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:17:16 -0500, Lz <elezeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> i'd go for the add and option thing.
>
> I have the "show emails instead of nicknames" option turned on, so i  
> can't
> see PSM'S on CL at all. That way i could see them :P


global/custom nicks already support PSMs in them.. + they support \n and  
\t too
now.. scroll down to read my answer to Vivia...

> On 1/30/06, Vivia Nikolaidou <vivia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > First of all: GREAT WORK Youness :) looks much better! I thought it was
> > impossible when I tried to do the same thing... :)

thanks! but it was easy actually :P only it needed a little bit of code  
refactoring.. don't be afraid to move code around and remove/add arguments  
to an already existing method (example, before we were sending the  
'nickname' (what to show, so nickname\npsm) to ShowUser which would draw  
everything for a single user.. but that was stupid.. I moved the code to  
ShowUser and removed the '$user_name" argument as it's not needed! without  
that code refactoring, it wouldn't have been easy!

> > Second:
> >
> > http://amsn.sourceforge.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=423&highlight=
> >
> > ------------
> >
> > Well, most people want the PSM next to the nickname and not below it,  
> > but
> > this person has a point... I had to face this problem too locally  
> > because
> > I shrink the aMSN window... So I can see two solutions:
> >
> > 1) we add an option :D :D :D :D

no..

> > 2) we make the custom/global nicks able to contain newlines AND show the
> > psms in italics... will need more work of course, and most people won't
> > think of doing it this way - personally, forget about it, I cannot do  
> > this
> > :)

the idea was to automatically show the PSM in italic, can't show it  
differently.. + newlines are possible already.. just copy a newline from  
somewhere and paste it in that entry :P but I think we should add a  
'newline inserter' like in the nickname/psm/FC4 entries.. if it's not  
there already

> > And, of course, 3) ignore this request :)

we will ignore it.. at least, I will.. you can not ignore it by simply  
answering that guy that we are ignoring it :P (in short, answer him with  
my reasons here, and ignore the request itself)..
the reason is simple.. we're an M$N clone, so we reproduce M$ behavior...  
I just tested, opened M$ 7.5, set a PSM, and ohh, how horrible, yes, it  
gets cropped out! well, that's NORMAL! if you want to see it, you maximize  
your window.. I know in linux, you usually don't maximize windows, and in  
windows, you can't work without maximimizing them.. but hey, that's just  
how it is!
if we ever accept this request, we'd better also accept queries like :
"ohh, I made my CL 2 pixels wide because I want all my apps in the same  
desktop, but I can't read anyone's nicknames, it's all cropped out, can  
you make it so that it's wrapped instead? and I can see one character per  
line.. I don't care if I scroll down for hours to read one nick..."

anyways, my proposition for this request is this :
make PSM bold/italic in the tooltip (code refactoring anyone ?:P) AND it  
seems that now, the nick is trimmed, the status is not, the PSM is not..  
it should be, not AND psm trimmed, status not... but I'll have to check  
how M$ does it..

KKRT


> > What does everyone think?
> >
> > Viv
>
>
>
> --
> Lz (elezeta@xxxxxxxxx).
> http://elezeta.bounceme.net



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