The remainder of this post is a backup of my feedback forum post on their website. I simply give my opinions and feedback on features present or missing in order to improve my future experience on the program.
Toasts and sound events optional per protocol
Expand on the lil checkboxes for notifications, allow users to disable toasts from facebook, for example. Ultimately, allow users to limit pop-up toasts and sound events to Evolve account changes on your contact list, and not external protocols.
Options to group/ungroup multiple accounts under the same network
You have "group contacts by IM network", expand upon this by allowing "group contacts by account". Ie "blah@gmail.com" on MSN and "blah@hotmail.com" also on MSN, but separate on the friends list.
Account/Protocol that's being used on the current chat tab
When you've got a heap of conversations open, it can be confusing. Having the account you're using to send messages TO them displayed somewhere on that tab, would be handy. As well as the actual account name (not just nickname/alias) of the person you're talking to. Ie, "blah@hotmail.com on MSN".
- Real life example: I referred my friend, 5 minutes later I saw him sign on (toast). I proceeded to talk to him about Evolve for ten minutes before he said "wait, I don't have it installed yet". He had signed in on another IM and I just saw the toast and clicked it, assuming that he'd completed the referral I sent him. (Yes, I know I would have seen him on my friends list if I bothered to look.)
Chat tab close button modification - partial credit to Neillithan
Crosses to close chat tabs only appear on the currently active tab. Neillithan suggested only one cross for the entire window, and that controls the currently focused tab, but why not just do it like Firefox 8.0?
Window snapping
10px window edge snapping, somewhat self-explanatory.
"Last message receieved
"Last message received" takes up way too much room, it reserves almost 3 text lines. I would personally prefer it below the text field (where you type), but that's just preference. Either that or an option to completely remove it, we do have timestamps afterall. (Perhaps only show "last message received on
Party chat dedicated window
Party chat windows are bung when they're in the same frame as a standard chat window. I prefer my chat windows small, which as you're about to see, makes party chat windows impossible to use. If "party members" was displayed attached to the side of the standard chat window, it wouldn't resize the chat area in the window. A good example would be to make it not too dissimilar to the tutorial message I believe I saw when I first installed Evolve. Alternatively, the ability to completely remove the party chat from the chat box would be handy, so you can have it a different size to the other chat windows, remember its own size, position, and such.
Video capture hotkey - Already discussed with mamu; will be implemented soon.
Needs a checkbox to enable/disable the media record shortcut, so you can avoid accidentally pressing it.
Systray double-click behaviour
Double-click toggle of friends list is good, but I'd rather it bring the list to focus when I double-click the systray, even when the friends list is still open on my taskbar.
Auto-away time
Simple number field added to "auto-away" to allow us to customize after how long your status is automatically set to away; I prefer it to set to away after one minute of inactivity, so that people don't spend the next ten minutes asking me why I'm not talking.
Alternate protocol feature support
This one's a doozy. Being able to call my friends on xfire using Evolve or webcamming to my MSN contacts would be a unique feature, and a selling point for a number of my friends who are still refusing to give Evolve a shot.
Mobile app
An interesting idea for those of us with smart phones; being able to log on and chat with our Evolve friends, and eventually even friends on accounts that are supported by Evolve. Down the road even farther, when taking the above point into consideration, Evolve could become the primary means of mobile social communication, especially if it could tap into your phone's voip and cam capabilities.
Furthering alternative protocol support
I've seen other programs tap into the Steampowered friends chat, Evolve could do it too. What about Skype (maybe with their support) and possibly IRC, too?
--Likely more to come in the future--
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