Re: MSN Avatars

On Nov 25, 2004, at 12:01 AM, Elektron wrote:

>> 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.
>
> How about any file transfers in the first place? (the only ones I've 
> seen working are MSN transfers to Trillian users. I haven't tried ICQ 
> or AIM much, though.)

 From my email in this thread on the 23rd:

> From my point of view MSN Avatars are relatively unimportant compared 
> to some of the other issues that need to be resolved.  The biggest 
> issue is complete file transfer support, followed by all round 
> stability.  Put simply, it's not something that I personally care 
> about, other than from a "it would be nice to support the same 
> features as other clients" point of view.

Granted, the file transfers in Fire 1.0.x are a bit flakey.  Current 
CVS has much improved file transfer support -- it's a lot less likely 
to crash when things don't work out.  That said, it still only supports 
the case where the sender is not behind NAT or has port-forwarding of 
the relevant file transfer ports enabled.

As I mentioned above, file transfers are a high priority of me to fix.  
I've been playing around with a few changes that increase transfer 
speeds while decreasing CPU usage -- hopefully I'll be able to work out 
the remaining kinks in the near future.

Regards,

Mark Rowe