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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:31:08PM +0100, Mark Fowler said: > To have smileys on is the default behaviour on ymessenger, or at least it > was a couple of months ago when I was using it on linux. Now the annoying > thing is that this software used to corrupt itself so often (it would get > it into it's head that you wanted a font so small it was only two pixels > high) that the only way to cope is to delete the ~/.ymessenger directory > almost every time you used it. I hate Yahoo! Messenger more than you do. Because I'm forced to use it. Y! Messenger was, I'm led to belive, developed internally, to cope with the fact that at any given point a member of the team I'm working with may, in fact, be nowhere near me. Where nowhere ranges from a few hundred meters horizontally and 50 vertically to, well, at least 10 time zones, if not more. Everyone uses here. Yet, strangely, it's practically not supported. Something broken? File a bug and wait or patch it yourself. We have a couple of skunk work internal versions - I'm running 0.99.22 which doesn't crash quite as much. Although conference messages still bring it to a resounding crash. I hate many little things about it. For a start I hate the fact that it exists because I hate talking on it. I hate the fact that, on Unix, I use multiple desktops and this makes using messenger difficult. Either I don't have it pop up when someone messages me or I miss the fact that they've done it. But if I do have a pop up, and two people are messaging me when I'm also working then they can inadvertently get a stream of bitter invective that wasn't meant for them or a paste full of code. And if a messenger is on one desktop then it will only pop up there again. Unless I close the window. Which means I lose all the history (unlike the latest Windows versions apparently) and also means that occasionally I close *just* as someone messages me. So I have to ask them again. Grrr. Speaking of copy and pasting. Well, that just doesn't work. Although occasionally it does. URLs are highlighted but to activate them I have to double click on them. Which then opens two browser windows. And it's easy to forget that you've set yyour status to away. And when people put URLs in *their* status messages ... well, I'm buggered because I can't copy it (not a selectable text area plus, well, copying doesn't work) and I can't click on it. And adding someone someone else in ... the 'group to add them to' part of the form is default highlighted. So if I've copied an ID from an email or somethingthen I have to deselect it, go back to the original desktop, copy it again and go back to messenger. *sigh* -- the illusion of knowledge without any of the difficult bits
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