Roundup: Top X requested iChat features

By David Chartier

Last Thursday I put you TUAW'ers in charge of iChat, asking what features you'd add and what problems you'd solve. Here's a roundup of the Top X requests, in no particular order. However, if these were in order, the first two would most certainly be on the top of the stack, by far:

  • Tabbed chatting
  • No surprise: multi-protocol, with most requests for MSN (especially since MSN and Yahoo might be holding hands soon)
  • connect to multiple AIM accounts at once
  • more features better control over status messages (i.e. – setting a specific time for idle and auto-away)
  • option to be invisibility while online
  • animated buddy icons
  • document and/or screen sharing
  • archive browsing
  • option to encrypt messages for all users – not just .Mac members
  • Full profile editing/support

A lot of requests also echoed the idea of simply telling Apple's iChat team: "look at Adium. Now go back to the drawing board" and, in many ways, I agree. Adium just really seems to have its act together. (By the way, if you have any more iChat features, ideas or requests, please post them to the original post's comment thread to help keep everything in its place.)

One thing I think is kind of funny: no one, and I mean no one, mentioned a single thing about Proteus in the comments. Which is even funnier if you consider that, back in the day when I first hopped on the OS X bandwagon, I actually purchased a Proteus license. Hey, we all learn our lessons sooner or later right?
 

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