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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:36, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:19 +0200, Conscious User wrote:
>
> > One thing that is universal, though, is how they are
> > displayed: picture on the left, message to the right
> > with the name in bold. So why not take advantage of
> > the familiarity of this layout to make the purpose
> > of the broadcasting field more evident? See the
> > attached mockup.
>
> > You will also notice that I added a "says:" to the
> > broadcasting field. I thought it might be a good
> > way to differentiate broadcasts from IM custom
> > status, which are more like temporary descriptions.
> > But I'm not entirely sure on this one.
>
> I think this does quite a lot for clearing up the purpose of that field.
> But if you just look at that without prior/external knowledge, you still
> would have to ask: Say where? To whom?
>

thank you.

Yes, the "broadcast field" is certainly a learnable feature in the MeMenu.
It will make publishing your current thought to the world very comfortable,
i'm sure.
But please somebody help me understand why i have a field to publicly log my
thoughts next to IM presence status settings, while i can't even inform my
contacts about why exactly i do not want to be disturbed right now..

I still don't understand the idea behind this configuration..