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Old 09-18-2008   #5 (permalink)
Teoh Han Hui


 
 

RE: Windows Live Messenger Beta First Impressions

The "What's New" list is a nice addition, but the link for the contact's name
should open a new conversation window with the contact instead of showing
his/her profile. It's logical to assume that I would wish to chat with a
person after seeing his/her recent activities in Messenger. The profile has
little or no use in this case.

"ups" wrote:
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> 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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