IntroductionThis wiki page describes the different options available in the Advanced Tab of the msn-pecan plugin. To access this tab from within pidgin, goto: - Accounts->Manage Accounts->Click your msn-pecan account->Modify button->Advanced tab
Details- Use HTTP Method: Connect to MSN servers using outgoing port 80. Mostly used for firewall and/or proxies. Note: the code is not completely stable, so you might experience some issues.
- Show custom smileys: Show the non-standard custom smileys that are sent from other buddies.
- Use server-side alias: If you have an alias set for one of your buddies on the MSN server, use that instead of their set display/nick name. Note: don't use this if you use old clients (MSN 7.5) for the same account.
- Use direct connections: For file transfers, use direct connections to the user you are transferring files with. This gives much faster download rates. Note: Still experimental.
- Use user displays: Fetch user displays (buddy icons). If you experience crashes, try disabling this option.
- Don't show Messenger Plus! tags: Hide Messenger Plus! tags from nicknames and personal messages.
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Under what circumstances does the "Use direct connections" option give problems? Sounds like a cool feature.
By enable "Use server-side alias:", why doesn't it work?
@zb0922 because there's a bug: issue 81
You should have a feature that allows users to set their display/friendly name from either the server or to have it stored locally, which then updates the one on the server. _
@rambaldi.kat.47: please open a bug with your feature request
I can't find the "Use direct connections" option in the advanced tab, I'm using msnpecan-0.1.0-rc2 with Pidgin 2.6.3 on WinXP SP3. Tried to transfer a file but it is slow. Any idea? Great work anyway
@tommaso it's disabled on Windows; will be enabled on the next rc