"Name" display for offline contacts (MSN, Adium 1.

thomasp · Post by **thomasp** » Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:12 pm

Is there any way to remove the "Screen name" display from offline contacts on MSN, and just show their e-mail address, like in Adium 0.89?

Currently, any offline contacts show a very old screen name - I preferred it when it was just their e-mail addresses, as it was much easier to distinguish who was online and offline.

Gimp · Post by **Gimp** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:21 am

view -> contact name format -> User Name

This should display their email address instead of display names.

thomasp · Post by **thomasp** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 3:17 pm

Gimp wrote:view -> contact name format -> User Name

This should display their email address instead of display names.

That does it for everyone though. I want to see just the alias for online users and just the e-mail address for offline users, like in Adium 0.89

djbsquared · Post by **djbsquared** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:58 pm

This is probably not an option anymore, Adium saves the name pulled from the server even after sign off.

thomasp · Post by **thomasp** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:23 pm

djbsquared wrote:This is probably not an option anymore, Adium saves the name pulled from the server even after sign off.

Would it be possible to have this option put back in a later version, since these names don't seem to update when people sign in and then out again.

webby · Post by **webby** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:10 pm

Couldn't you just type in their email address as their alias? Or is it that you want it to say Ben when he's online and ben.bloggs@hotmail.com when he's offline?

nikarlo · Post by **nikarlo** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:34 pm

The second one options. Also I wish see email when contact is offline like past 0.89.

thomasp · Post by **thomasp** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:59 pm

webby wrote: Or is it that you want it to say Ben when he's online and ben.bloggs@hotmail.com when he's offline?

Exactly!

Joe Bloggs while online and joe.bloggs@hotmail.com when offline.

Post by **The_Tick** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:27 pm

Why do you want this?

thomasp · Post by **thomasp** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:32 pm

The_Tick wrote:Why do you want this?

For one, it's annoying seeing aliases that haven't been used for months (the aliases are very old and out of date).

It was a nice separation between online and offline users

I could quickly glance at the offline list and see if someone was offline or using an obscure screen name, just by looking at where their e-mail address should have been

When you have more than one person who regularly uses the same alias (eg, two Bob's who always have their aliases as "Bob") and one is online and the other offline, I could glance down the email list (much quicker than moving the mouse over to the contact list and waiting for the popup to appear showing their profile picture and email address) and see which email was listed, indicating which Bob was offline.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:07 am

thomasp wrote:It was a nice separation between online and offline users

There is an ability to have all offline users show up in a group in 1.0. Wouldn't that do the same thing?

thomasp · Post by **thomasp** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:41 am

The_Tick wrote:
There is an ability to have all offline users show up in a group in 1.0. Wouldn't that do the same thing?

Still doesn't show just the email address for offline users and just the alias for online users, so it still doesn't solve the problems I mentioned earlier

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:14 am

thomasp wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
There is an ability to have all offline users show up in a group in 1.0. Wouldn't that do the same thing?
Still doesn't show just the email address for offline users and just the alias for online users, so it still doesn't solve the problems I mentioned earlier

However, that isn't what I asked. Does it resolve this specific issue?

nikarlo · Post by **nikarlo** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:33 am

The_Tick wrote: However, that isn't what I asked. Does it resolve this specific issue?

For me no.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:28 am

nikarlo wrote:
The_Tick wrote: However, that isn't what I asked. Does it resolve this specific issue?
For me no.

Why not?

Guys, what I'm specifically trying to do here is come up with the exact reason why this is a problem, and then we move on to the other points you have brought up.

nikarlo · Post by **nikarlo** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:28 pm

For me is useful seeing email addresses for not login user....I have all contact displayng in my contact list, and is fast to see that for email address the contact isn't log in in my session. Than, some contact user name change every day and when them gone offline I see old contact name.....For me the 0.89.1 configuration it was the best.

thomasp · Post by **thomasp** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:28 pm

The_Tick wrote:
thomasp wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
There is an ability to have all offline users show up in a group in 1.0. Wouldn't that do the same thing?
Still doesn't show just the email address for offline users and just the alias for online users, so it still doesn't solve the problems I mentioned earlier
However, that isn't what I asked. Does it resolve this specific issue?

No, because of the reasons I stated in my previous post. I can't see any way to set it to have "email addresses only" for the offline group and "Aliases only" for the online group - if there is a way to do this and I'm just being stupid, then please let me know!

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:20 pm

thomasp wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
thomasp wrote: Still doesn't show just the email address for offline users and just the alias for online users, so it still doesn't solve the problems I mentioned earlier
However, that isn't what I asked. Does it resolve this specific issue?
No, because of the reasons I stated in my previous post. I can't see any way to set it to have "email addresses only" for the offline group and "Aliases only" for the online group - if there is a way to do this and I'm just being stupid, then please let me know!

Again, this is not what I'm asking.

Adium 1.0 has the ability to put offline contacts into a separate, virtual group. This separates your online from your offline contacts.

I'm not referring to any functionality regarding aliases, I am only regarding to the separation of offline and online contacts.

Rather than approach each portion of the issue at the same time, I'd rather approach only one portion of the issue at a time. When responding, please take into consideration that this is not about aliases at this point, and only about the separation of offline and online contacts.

This is the specific item I am trying to address first:

thomasp wrote:It was a nice separation between online and offline users

So please, from the beginning, just this portion of the issue.

nikarlo · Post by **nikarlo** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:54 pm

For me is the same, because I have the online contact at the top, and offline bottom...so the offline group is not useful for me.

Post by **The_Tick** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:05 pm

nikarlo wrote:For me is the same, because I have the online contact at the top, and offline bottom...so the offline group is not useful for me.

Let's let the person who originally brought it up answer before we move on to another portion of this issue.