Re: [OpenVerse] More Features - Yes cruise we do respect what you do

[DJ Eaton <utopian@utopia.freehosting.net>]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>  On Thu, 09 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>  > 1. Option to hide IP in whois (Potential nukes etc)
>  
>  Possibly server specific in the future as will be translation to hostname.

Good.
 
>  > 2. Click and drag for moving
>  
>  Bah!

GRR :P
why not? as an option... either click, or either drag...

>  > 3. Quit Msgs (No Default)
>  
>  Fluff but a good idea.

Yes, unneeded but nice.. Thats why not default... otherwise u get sick of em

>  > 4. Pings
>  
>  Pings are not needed. The only useful thing pings are for is flooding other
>  users. The protocol includes a PING/PONG command/response which will log  users
>  off who are not responding to the server. The Client can determine it's lag to
>  the server depending on how long it takes for outgoing chat messages to come
>  back. Possibly I could build in some code which monitors the response time to
>  the server and report it to the user. Any use of pings which is from user ->
>  user is (IMHO) something to be abused.

Well a statement Pings doesn't say how it is implimented... all i really wanna
know is how lagged from the server i am getting (it happens every so often and
the client just goes dead (maybe fix that aswell))


>  > 5. Objects - The ticker rocks... lets get more
>  
>  Yeah yeah yeah, they're hard. just chill.

Yeh i know they are hard... i played with ya ticker code ya send me... and
trying to make a beer object or an object client type thing.. well owch.....

>  
>  > 6.  Longer Nicks
>  
>  Why 12 aint long enough? I think it is. Much more and people's name tags take
>  up too much screen realestate. Have you ever shut names off? It's so much
>  prettier. Try it sometime.

12 is long enough and yes names shut off is nice...maybe if the full detail
whois thing is implimented 12 will sufice...

>  
>  > 7. Spaces in Nicks
>  
>  Not gonna happen. the space is the delimeter in the protocol. You cannot have a
>  space in your nick.

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>  > 8. Timestamp in the Text Chat
>  
>  Good idea.

No shit shirlock :)

>  
>  > 9. Nick list down the side in Text chat (like on most irc clients)
>  
>  Could be done easily with a custom panel. the infrastructure is in place for
>  this already. All someone has to do is design a panel to do this. Not a high
>  priority for me so it prolly won't get done unless someone else does it.

Oo goodie... well maybe i'lll do that one day and maybe i wont... i like to
"cruise" along in life :P

>  
>  > 10. away mode (could change the bgcolour of ya nick to Grey and put Away:
>  > <msg>) on it
>  
>  Good idea.
again still no shit shirlock :)


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