1. Displaying a small avatar in the buddylist is an obvious feature
and you are right to ask about it. When I forked the code, it seemed
that avatar/icons were half-implemented; some work had obviously been
done but it didn't seem to work. Since then, I've been focused on RPG
features and haven't gone back to finish up these half-implemented
features yet. By chance, I happened to mess around with this code the
other day. I didn't fix it but it seems pretty easy to fix. I'm
sorry that this hasn't been done already and is broken in the current
build. It isn't a priority but I'll try to slip a fix in soon,
anyway.
2. Having the avatar pop up a larger image when you hover over the
small image seems like a sensible and easy to implement feature. That
shouldn't be too hard.
3. Having the avatar appear in the chat window with a small bit of
user info would be good, too.
4. Like #1, profile seems half-implemented as a legacy from the
fork. It should be fully implemented. I'm fairly sure that profile
does nothing; you can enter one but nobody can see it.
If you could submit these as two Feature Requests at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaximrpg/ , that would really help.
Up to now, the priority has been to make features for playing RPGs but
I plan to have a release where many of these basic chat features are
finished off.
Dan
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