Bring back certain features in v.81!

[Son of a Preacher Man]

Updated message styles do have the away message in the box. Please use one that has been updated for .8.

I'm not sure that's right, to be honest.

[edit] Nah, it probably is right.

[Vlcice]

It's been mentioned elsewhere, but I thought I might as well put it in the "restore features" thread. ;3 Bring back plaintext logs, please!

[ob1]

First off.. you guys are awesome. Thanks for making such a versatile and wonderful app that everyone can customize to their own liking. A+ for you.

Am I missing a pref that shows the time I've been away since. I remember it was like: "Away since 5:02 (30 minutes)" That was awesome.. cuz I used it to see how long I slept, showered, all kinds of things.

[ferguson]

What I miss the most from .77 is the mute while away option... I don't know if it's gone, or if I just can't find it. I always have adium on, but often I'm away. And it's slightly annoying to be watching a movie, and hear a duck quack. Is there a way to mute while away in .8 short of turning off all the alert sounds? And if it's gone, can you add it back? I loved it.

[Son of a Preacher Man]

Only if you show the little Away window.

[John Don]

Am I missing a pref that shows the time I've been away since. I remember it was like: "Away since 5:02 (30 minutes)" That was awesome.. cuz I used it to see how long I slept, showered, all kinds of things.

I used the away message window for this same purpose as well. It helped me to become more organized, lol

[Thinine]

Am I missing a pref that shows the time I've been away since. I remember it was like: "Away since 5:02 (30 minutes)" That was awesome.. cuz I used it to see how long I slept, showered, all kinds of things.

Yes, bring back the Away palette! If you use a borderless window for your contacts, there's currently no way to tell if you're away. That's highly annoying.

[The_Tick]

Am I missing a pref that shows the time I've been away since. I remember it was like: "Away since 5:02 (30 minutes)" That was awesome.. cuz I used it to see how long I slept, showered, all kinds of things.

Yes, bring back the Away palette! If you use a borderless window for your contacts, there's currently no way to tell if you're away. That's highly annoying.

Yes there is, go look in preferences and enable the away button thinger

[DJeMeCouche]

I rarely, if ever use the shortcut so i find it really aggrivating that the default is available when going through the menu.

You realize there are TWO customs, right? One below available and one below away?

Ah-Ha! back to feeling stupid about myself... I'll get used to that eventually... but now that I look at it, it makes sense... Nicely Done.

[Wengero]

Am I missing a pref that shows the time I've been away since. I remember it was like: "Away since 5:02 (30 minutes)" That was awesome.. cuz I used it to see how long I slept, showered, all kinds of things.

Yes, bring back the Away palette! If you use a borderless window for your contacts, there's currently no way to tell if you're away. That's highly annoying.

looking at your dock icon(almost all of them have a seperate look when your away)

[apraetor]

We may bring back that sort of selector perhaps. But your steps to do what you want are more complicated than necessary; the custom away window automatically contains your current away state when you select it. So:
Status->Old State
Status->Custom
type type
press OK

is all you need to do.

That is not the behaviour it exibits. Following your directions I get a blank custom window with the state set to "available". For "Status->Old State" I selected an old state, with my status as away.

[Son of a Preacher Man]

Sounds like you're selecting the wrong "custom..." - choose the one with the away icon next to it.

[MacMom]

Am I missing a pref that shows the time I've been away since. I remember it was like: "Away since 5:02 (30 minutes)" That was awesome.. cuz I used it to see how long I slept, showered, all kinds of things.

Yes, bring back the Away palette! If you use a borderless window for your contacts, there's currently no way to tell if you're away. That's highly annoying.

looking at your dock icon(almost all of them have a seperate look when your away)

The default dock icon looks exactly the same whether I am available or away - and it's missing that nice little sign that used to appear on it when I was away or idle.

[Catfish_Man]

Yes, bring back the Away palette! If you use a borderless window for your contacts, there's currently no way to tell if you're away. That's highly annoying.

looking at your dock icon(almost all of them have a seperate look when your away)

The default dock icon looks exactly the same whether I am available or away - and it's missing that nice little sign that used to appear on it when I was away or idle.

This is fixed for 0.81

[MacMom]

Thanks.

[mehve]

One thing I miss from .77 is the reformat incoming messages feature in the advanced section of the preferences. Its new incarnation just doesn't cut it: if the person-I'm-talking-to's font is bolded it won't de-bold it. Really annoying. Well, kind of annoying.

[staticnz]

the thing i miss the most is the "Connect All"/"Disconnect All" menu options.

If i had a few of my accounts online, i could previously use the "Connect All" option to bring the rest online. Now I have to set ALL accounts to offline, then bring them all back online again.

Not quite. Use the statuses in the Status menu (the status items at the top, don't root through your account submenus). These will change the available/away/offline for all online accounts just as you'd expect.

I'm afraid not.. If 2 of my 8 accounts are offline, changing my master status to ANY of the "available" or "away" statuses changes this only for the online accounts. the offline ones remain offline

[gabriel]

Another vote for bringing back the away time indicator... it was useful!

-gabriel

[cruciarius]

Another vote for bringing back the away time indicator... it was useful!

-gabriel

yes, please bring this back. though...i don't see how useful it could be, but i liked to see how long i had the away msg up for.

[SS3 GokouX]

Another vote for the time. I used it to see how long I've been sleeping or at class and such. Very useless, but... yeah, just really useless but neat.