GMessenger

[DayleRees]

Guys the concept was based on another concept, lots of original stuff, and all 3 of us playing around in photoshop.

My idea was that we let neowin users design names and logos for the messenger, and then we will pick one if we like it :)

SO COME ON AND POST SOME :D

Ok at the moment im dealing with a nasty bug...

it will only let u use hotmail.com and hotmail.co.uk accounts for some reason :'(

gonna have a fiddle and try and fix it, KoL was the first person to 'outside' BETA test, but he did get a stupidly buggy version :p

Thanks for all offers of hosting etc their great.

Please contact me if you want any technical answers as GHL is the designer.

Audio Visual Support? - maybe... it depends how well it goes when i get to that stage.

Thanks for comments, keep them coming!

[tekno]

Sounds Interesting.

though I would like to see a list of implemented features and/or features that you plan to add :) ( like display pic, file transfer, custom emoticon, ect .)

Keep it up :)

[Keito]

release the alpha to me :p I want it really really bad, because it just looks damn good :p

keep up the great work GHL

[DayleRees]

the alphas going to noooooooobody... well apart from KoL cos he was on my MSN and a bud... but NO ONE :p

Wait for BETA tho m8 ;)

[habonator]

habonator: excuse me? this entire graphical user interface was created from scratch. i did not 'steal' anything, please do not accuse me as i take it seriously. and what you were referring to were CONCEPTS by an artist whos obvious inspiration was similar to my own, the "ipod look".

Yeah sure. :rolleyes: Thats why the news posting providing this screenshots i've mentioned was removed by request of Microsoft on December 6th.

[Slimy]

dammit DAMMIT DAMMIT! i thought this was for gmail :crazy:

anyways, good work, definitely going to look into it when it's released

[Bhav]

i also volunteer myself as a beta tester!

[Edi]

when will the beta be available?

and is there, by any chance, a small possibility to add Yahoo Mess. compatibility ?

[GNRambo]

You guys are all wrong, if its in alpha stage you can only be an alpha tester not beta ;)

[Keito]

i want it :( so bad...

anyways i'll stop posting that as I havehad too many bears and I'm aware of that, but again, keep up the great work and hopefully the beta will appear soon for everyone :)

[edit] If you need help designing windows or something i'd be glad to help :D :yes:

[black.ops]

I seriously do not want anything on it but msn... it completely messes my contact list up when i try to use a multi messenger program.

Keep it like this :)

/edit one thing that would be nice though, would be the possiblility for it to check more than one email account. :ninja:

[stevonw]

Looks soooo cool but got a few questions 2 ask

1)Can u sing in using any .NET Passport

2) When will a beta be avaliable!

3) This looks the coolest thing :D looks way better than MSN 7

[Shetland]

any .net passport.

we are only going for the MSN protocol so no inter-messenger aim stuff etc, just to .net passports.

and we now know we can impliment display pics in the list and custom status's perfectly, its all coming together:D

and for those of you who have seen the new msn (released 10 mins ago) you will see that its UI is SERIOUSLY over cluttered now, they are trying to cram everything in one place which is what we are NOT doing.

and for the guy who is ranting about that concept art that was requested to be removed ages ago: my inspiration is ipod.

[KiHu]

i would do anything to be a Beta tester for this....*drools*

[vip]

dont know why everyone is crying about a beta tester .. damn, it's still only in alpha stage .... give it time!

[msg43]

I can't wait for this. It looks so good. Do you guys plain on putting in support for msn plus?

Please Please make a beta soon

Well Keep this up and don't let this project die. It has happened to so many others :(

[Tech Star]

Can I be an alfa tester?? :o Plz? :blush:

[pmh]

do you guys need any hosting? Just leemie know.. also, do you guys have a site?

[Eli]

I'll also beta test throughly for you if you would like.

[aishiteru]

Good work!! About time we got another client.. I'm sick of miranda, and gaim.. and I'm back to normal MSN because of all the features.

[Shannon]

anyway as for MEM usage, its a bit of a whopper at the moment, i need to make the rendering a little better, and the code atm is messy as **** so lets hope it gets better. :)

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Whilever you're using .NET, resource usage won't drop that much. NET has to be the worst platform ever for resource usage. I wrote a simple MP3 player in VB.NET and it used 26mb idle?! :wacko:

But it (GMessenger) does look nice. It's a shame it isn't being written in C or something though.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

it just looks like a skin really... but i still like it (Y)

[Senseotech]

Too bad there will be no Linux/OS X clients, then I'd give it thought. Until then, it seems like a glorified skin, with some bugs.

[fmxer]

Will you be able to rename contacts?

[JazSembi]

i agree i have the new msn and it is far to clutered.. i do like your design however atm the list looks like if i had 40 members online it was go on for about 40 pages;\ this may be something to consider also i did think that it might be a nice idea to do ofline msgs as you do in icq i believe. where your program stores it untill they come online and then they show up. just a thought

great work ghl the gui atm owns msn's