Re: Fire 1.0 alpha - We need your help testing!!

Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, Dec 11, 2003, at 21:11 Asia/Hong_Kong, Zeb Polly wrote:

> any chance that non-buddies (ICQ) that message or add you to their 
> lists
> could show up as their ICQ nickname instead of the number? this would 
> be
> really useful not having to go to 'get info' just to see if it was 
> someone i
> wanted to message me or just some bot... seeing "1129819823: hi!" is 
> less
> useful than seeing the name of the new accountant i need to have in my 
> list.
> and it would clear up the recent chats window of having tons of 
> 1241871812
> people in it. and save time of editing the alias manually. possible?

But then when someone randomly adds you, you see whatever alias they 
set, which is a Bad Thing. Especially since I have so many people that 
I probably won't know who said person is at all. It could be a setting, 
or "123456789 (Nickname)" is a possible compromise.

> similar thing with MSN... does fire support updating of the nicknames? 
> if a
> buddy changes their MSN buddy nickname... can it show the update in 
> fire?
> ... right now it seems to stick with whatever the first one they had 
> was.

I like being able to choose what other people display as. I also hate 
it when people change their nicknames every other day and suddenly you 
don't know who the hell is who (a serious limitation in the official 
client).

In fact, the not-ever-changing-what-people-display-as functionality is 
one reason why I like Fire more than Proteus (you can set the alias in 
Proteus, but it can be unset, which means you have to set the alias for 
everyone if you want to make sure you'll be able to tell who's who).

- Purr



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