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Originally Posted by ABerri View Post
Ok so I installed haze today and it worked just fine. Few questions though:

1) When I change my status to "offline" does this mean I signed out or is there another way to sign out so I don't always stay signed in?

2) How do I see the list of my contacts of who is online and who isn't?

3) Would I be better off installing the "butterfly" plug in or downloading aMSN (just uninstalled it yesterday cos it's soooo freakin slow and sooo tiny meaning you need your stylus for everything) or is Haze as good as it gets right now?

4) When the Ovi Store Website says "Coming Soon" does this mean that it's going to have the great list of official apps we have all been waiting for? Things like MSN Messenger, Google Maps, etc... or is it just going to be the apps we already see in the 3 repositorys?

***My wife got her N900 today, customized it and all, and she loves it soo far. She complains though that the available apps in Maemo Select are all a bunch of weird named apps that regular users would never know what the hell any of them are. Many of them are either useless or more for the advanced user who is "linux" smart I guess. I kept telling her to just wait for Ovi Store to open which will be soon. When will it open btw...does anyone know?***

Thanks everyone!
1. Offline signs you out, otherwise it would be invisible mode not offline.

2. They appear in your Contacts, you can even merge them in with your telephone numbers so when you look to SMS or phone someone you will see if they are on messenger too.

3. I was wondering what the difference between Haze and Butterfly is too. They are a different code base presumably but no clue if one is better than the other.

4. No chance for MSN Messenger and unlikely for Google Maps. The Ovi Store is intended for commercial software, but I have not heard of Google showing any interest. Maybe we will be pleasantly surprised though.

5. I agree with your wife even though I am a reasonably experienced Linux user. I seriously dislike the App manager. Its really hard to find applications based on what you want them to do. But then, I think Linux in general has the same problem. You generally need to know the application name as searching through the list is often fruitless.

The N900 App manager seems particularly bad though. Search does not seem to work properly. I will have to start checking out the bug reports but being only on my second day, I am not ready for that yet.
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