Re: Text messaging...

How about showing the buddy online and placing a little phone icon next 
to the name of SMS buddies?

This requires no new words in the interface and the windows AIM client 
does this for buddies who have switched their buddyname to send to 
their phone.

I took a screen capture of it here: 
http://www.chaosserver.net/aimphone.jpg

-jdr



On Feb 19, 2004, at 1:48 AM, Elektron wrote:

>
> On 18 Feb, 2004, at 23:04, Graham Booker wrote:
>
>> There is another important detail here.  Fire 1.0 is interface frozen 
>> for the localizers.  That means that we can't change the interface in 
>> any way that involves words.  So the real question boils down to for 
>> 1.0, should SMS buddies show up as online, or offline.
>
> Preferably settable in preferences, and on by default (with status 
> text "N/A").
>
> It makes little sense for them to show as offline if they never show 
> as online (contrast this to a user who never comes online - your 
> messages are never received).
>
> It would be different story if the cellphones were reported as online 
> when turned on.
>
>> Ah.  Then, for the sake of accessing them, I'd say just set them to
>> read as online.  Otherwise, they'll never show on a buddy list that's
>> set only to display online buddies only (as is the likely habit of 
>> most
>> all users).  Of course, Yahoo buddies could benefit from a similar
>> change, since you can IM them while they're still offline.  But, 
>> that's
>> another thread...
>
> And you can do that with ICQ users too, which would render most of my 
> contact list as always online.
>
> I probably should try 0.99.2 sometime.
>
> - Purr
>
>
>
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