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Just some suggestions #13

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I know this is for issues, but I just thought I'd throw out some
suggestions. First off, it would be really nice if pending friend requests
weren't at the top of the friends list. They get in the way. Secondly, it
would be nice if there was some way to refresh, as I've noticed that it
doesn't update to frequently. Finally, it would be nice to have some
options as far as how things are displayed. Like the ability to have online
friends highlighted a dfiferent color (or only have online friends shown),
the ability to remove gamerpics from the list and so on. Options like
Adium, really.

Also, it would be nice if there was some way of loading friends profiles on
xbox.com directly from the application.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Winno...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2007 at 3:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Suggestions in the issue tracker is fine with me, thanks for sending them in.

One question, when you write "it would be really nice if pending friend 
requests weren't at the top of the 
friends list", don't you mean messages list?  They shouldn't be in the friends 
list at all.  If they're in the Friends 
list then that's a bug.  Can you send me a screenshot of this?  Or better, send 
a friend request to my gamertag 
fats10e6 so I can see if I can reproduce it myself.

As for refreshing Mac Live, the default refresh rate is once a minute.  If you 
flip over to the setup pane and 
click the sign in button, you can force it to refresh faster.  I may make the 
refresh rate adjustable in the future.

Displaying online friends differently is definitely on the docket.  Being able 
to not show gamerpics is a good 
suggestion, it could potentially make things faster as well.  I'm not sure I 
would like it, but it could be good as 
a user preference.

Loading friends profiles is definitely possible, but one thing is that loading 
those takes an extra page load to 
get to.  I guess I could use a separate WebView and just load them on demand in 
that.

Original comment by james.al...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2007 at 6:36

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Nope, I mean friends list. I fired off a FR to you, and attached is a 
screenshot.
Maverick1221 has been pending for over a week because his parents took away his 
360. ;)

I thought it was about a minute, but after I recieved a message while I was 
playing,
I paused and came back to my Mac to reply (writing sucks so bad on the 360). 
Figuring
I'd just use MacLive to do it instead of opening Safari, I went to go reply. The
message wasn't  there yet, so I waited. Then I gave up and went back to 
playing. Came
back half an hour later and it still wasn't there. Exited MacLive and reopened 
it. At
that point it finally showed up. That's why I'm thinking a refresh option would 
be
nice. :P

Yeah, you could do that for gamer profiles, or you could even just give the 
option of
opening it in the user's web browser of choice. Like just have that as an 
option in a
right click menu or something?

On a related note, some error message has started popping up today. Something 
about
it not being able to connect, even though I'm already logged in and going 
fine.. Also
attached.

Original comment by Winno...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2007 at 9:19

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Cool, I got the friend request and sure enough it shows up in the friends list 
(and the accept request button 
isn't showing up in the messages list for me, so it looks like i have some work 
to do there too)

Apparently Microsoft puts them in the friends list (i just scrape everything 
verbatim off the xbox.com friends 
list).  I feel like they didn't do that in the past, but maybe it's always been 
that way.  In any event, there's no 
point in having those requests in 2 places and so I think the messages list is 
the best place for them.

As for the "could not load xbox live information in 60 seconds message" that 
means that it took longer than 
60 seconds for Mac Live to visit all the pages on xbox.com it needed to.  It 
either means that Microsoft's 
servers are having trouble or your network connection is slow / flaky.  Mac 
Live will stop trying doing updates 
once that occurs and you actually have to flip over to the setup tab and 
re-sign in when that happens.

I guess I should clear out the interface and flip over to the setup tab in that 
case so it's clear what needs to be 
done in that case.

I like your suggestion about just opening gamer profiles in a web browser.  I 
don't think Mac Live needs to 
completely duplicate all functionality on xbox.com, so I'm happy to hand off to 
the actual xbox.com site when 
I don't think that having the information in Mac Live adds anything special.  I 
mean, really the only reason Mac 
Live exists is because web sites can't give growl notifications, aside from 
that using xbox.com is just fine.

Original comment by james.al...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2007 at 9:39

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Okay, cool. :)

Original comment by Winno...@gmail.com on 18 Feb 2007 at 11:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The friend request in friends list issue should be fixed in V5

Original comment by james.al...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2007 at 4:44