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Old 09-28-2008   #10 (permalink)
Jonathan Kay [MVP]


 
 

Re: Windows Live Messenger Beta First Impressions

Hi,

I have to admit that it's grown a little on me now and seems less of a big deal. Anyone
else?

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"Chr_nic" <Chr_nic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> yep too much white space
>
> "ups" wrote:
>
Quote:

>> 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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