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evands wrote:I would love pulsing instead, but it's just way too CPU intensive, especially for transparent contact lists which are quite common.

Is that the sort of thing that could be passed off to Core Image and handled by the GPU? (That'd make it a Tiger-only feature, I know.)

Cmd-Y can be handy, but it's not really as convenient if you're in another application; or if you want to choose a previously saved custom away message.

Thanks -- both! -- for the quick reply. I think I'm going to try me a beta.

Thanks for the quick reply. Solid is certainly better than flashing. Pulsing might still be a handy option (easy to see from across the room), but solid is *way* better than flashing :-)

For those of us who don't use the Dock much, it'd be really handy to be able to set Away messages from the status menu (in the menu bar).

When a contact is typing, has unviewed content, goes online or offline etc, they currently flash in the contact list. It seems like it would be much more "OS X-like" if they were to pulse instead. (I can't think of a whole lot of examples of flashing *or* pulsing interface elements in OS X...