msn-pecan now has direct connection support (fast file transfers)

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:07 -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> XMPP users expect the status message to be something that describes
> the current status. Sleeping, in a meeting, be right back, can't type
> now, grabbing food, palying wow, hacking, etc.
> 
> MSN users expect the personal message to be whatever the contact wants
> to say. I'm sick, happy new year, muse's concert was amazing, happy
> b-day chris, couch potato mode.
> 
> I don't think mixing the two is a good idea, they are not the same
> thing with different name.

I think this depends on who you ask. Plenty of MSN users use the
personal message as the status message.

> If personal messages are too MSN centric then I think 'status
> messages' should be detached from statuses and just have a 'message'
> that can only be changed by the user, and doesn't change when the
> status changes.

I am fine with that. I agree that it right now it can take quite a few
steps too many when we need to change the status message.

-khc