When your friends are awesome
Probably the feature that hooked people the most in Firefox 3 was the awesome bar. And for good reasons: what once required browsing through bookmarks, or re-googling faintly recalled keywords, or (heaven forbid) typing a whole URL, now only takes a bunch of keystrokes.
With that in mind, why not also cut on the amount of actions to perform when pinging friends, and make instant messaging a little more "instant"? Not a big deal if your whole contact list fits the screen and you can always reach everyone with a click, but for me and for most people I know, that time is long past.
So here's a touch of awesomeness for your contacts:
Goodies available through the development branch as usual.
Question: as this kind of minimal text-interface opens up a rich array of possibilities, what else do you imagine doing through it? Searching in previous chats? Adding and removing contacts? More?
SamePlace's bar
Great! Awesome! A feature I'm eager to have!
Yes, definitely, search through the archive(s) must be a need for a lot of people. Then, what do you think of archive-tagging? In order to help the classification and searching...
MUC joining might also be useful.
Then... What about service discovery? What about MUC Search? http://search.wensley.org.uk/
Yes, this is a great new
Yes, this is a great new feature!
Yes, definitely, search
Yes, definitely, search through the archive(s) must be a need for a lot of people. Then, what do you think of archive-tagging? In order to help the classification and searching...
Not sure what you mean here... how would that work?
MUC joining might also be useful.
Excellent idea. Definitely!
Then... What about service discovery? What about MUC Search? http://search.wensley.org.uk/
I've actually been annoying Michael for a while now. :) I'm hesitant to put the search feature in the contact bar because that would generate a network call every time, but Sonny and Luca came up with the IMHO good idea for a MUC widget which would show joined and bookmarked rooms. I think it would be nice to have MUC search there.
But of course the contact bar could still be able to search through the MUC bookmarks.
Thanks for the suggestions Nyco!
Dev versions for TB
Can we have the development versions for Thunderbird as well. Right now it says only for Firefox.
When you say Contacts, is it possible to integrate this with existing AddressBooks, like AddressBook from Thunderbird/OutlookExpress, or Contacts from Evolution/Outlook, et cetera. So that we don't need to redo the entire Address Book to maintain contacts separately for Sameplace.
The reason, is many users try to maintain things at single place. In my case, I store all my Contacts at GMail, so that I can sync my TB@home, Outlook@Work.
So if Samplace can reuse the AddressBooks from existing email-clients, that will be awesome.
Thanks
Can we have the development
Can we have the development versions for Thunderbird as well. Right now it says only for Firefox.
Sorry, because of lack of time I've stopped developing the Thunderbird version. I'll soon put up a call for maintainers - let's keep our fingers crossed and hope someone steps in. :)
Your suggestion about address book integration is good, though. I'll make sure it gets attention if we manage to keep the Thunderbird version alive.
Sameplace for TB more than FF
I want to raise a fundamental question here. Why is Sameplace integrated more with FF than TB? I guess the FF is more of a surfing tool than actual communication where as TB is a communication tool rather than surfing. That being said, I guess it makes more sense and will be more fitting to keep Sameplace in the same as TB.
I don't want to keep hammering the devs of Sameplace with TB/TB/TB, but I think these two belong to the same application genre.
Why is Sameplace integrated
Why is Sameplace integrated more with FF than TB?
Two reasons: 1) I use Firefox but don't use Thunderbird, and 2) if you look into the history of SamePlace you'll find that much of it consisted (and still consists, though in a more subtle way) in web/IM integration.
I don't want to keep hammering the devs of Sameplace with TB/TB/TB, but I think these two belong to the same application genre.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fully in support of a Thunderbird version, but we'll need a developer who is also a Thunderbird user to do this with any measure of quality.
So if you care about the Thunderbird version, please keep an eye on this space, and help spread the call for maintainers when it appears (next week most likely :)).
Hi, some ideas usefull to
Hi,
some ideas usefull to me:
/add [remove] contact@sameplace.cc
/status online/busy/away
/connect [disconnect] MSN [ICQ,Yahoo] transport
/join chatroom@...
/notifyme contact (alert me when contact comes online)
/bind monkey :-(|)
/g foo bar (search for foo bar on Google)
/bind tux http://cyberjabba.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/tux.jpg (to have a tux image in chat area as I write "tux" in text area)
Maybe I'm exaggerating :-P
hamen