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Old 09-17-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Windows Live Messenger Beta First Impressions

My first impression on WLM Beta is fairly positive still I would like to give
one quick suggestion.

There is too much blank space.
In the contact list window:
Around the Display Picture and all around the header there is too much
wasted space. Heck! There is too much space around everything. The pub on
the bottoms is a nice example as is the size minimum size of each entry in
the contact list. Think of small notebooks with that not much of space in the
vertical axis.

In the conversation window:
There is too much space in the Display Picture area. I use a small screen
and most of my window is just blank!
I suggest to move the arrow down icon next to the display picture and merge
it functionalities to the menu obtained when the display picture is clicked.
The webcam icon could then be relocated to somewhere that does not occupy 1
cm-wide stripe from top to bottom in the window.

Now a couple of suggestions
Add pption to remove groups like the one with favorites
Move the progress bar of transfer files to outside the conversation log. A
possible place is the obvious sea of white space between display pictures.
Its a pain to have to scroll the message log to see how the transfer is going.
A long asked feature... resume file sending.
Option to automatically place the received files in folders with the email
address of the sender.

I'll investigate/test further and then post it here again.

Keep up the great work.
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