Re: MSN Avatars

> We don't currently support MSN buddy icons, however we have all the  
> support infrastructure there to add that feature since we support  
> buddy icons on AIM.
>
> There's a feature request for this here:
>
> [ 832575 ] MSN: Buddy Picture
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
> func=detail&aid=832575&group_id=33772&atid=409173
>
> From Mark's last comment in the feature request:
>
> Any help that can be offered for this would be most appreciated -- MSN  
> display pictures are dealt with via a different protocol from
> the standard MSN things.  This would be a lot of work to implement.   
> On the plus side, custom emoticons and file transfers behind NAT would  
> be more or less "free" once this is implemented.
>
> This is something that I plan to look into in the future.
>
> -Jason
>

One IM client that's also GPL'd that implements this is Miranda IM -  
http://www.miranda-im.org/. Might be worthwhile to look at their  
source. IMO this a pretty big feature that Fire lacks.

-Myrd



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