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 4. Configuring Trillian
 4.1. Preferences
  Contact List



List
  • Hide offline contacts: Entries for offline buddies will be moved to the 'offline folder'
  • Show medium icons: Each entry in your contact list will display an icon indicating messanger service
  • Suppress empty groups: If a folder in your contact list displays no entries, it will be hidden from view
  • Show group counts with (online/total): Displays the number of entries for each folder in its tooltip, and on the list
  • Show secondary icons (alerts, warnings, etc): Displays non standard icons for buddies who have assigned alerts, warnings, etc.
  • Show recent online/offline icons for [ ] seconds: Number of seconds to show 'just disconnected' buddies with a different appearance
  • Enable docking (taskbar entry must be off, see below): Allows the contact list to be attatched to the edges of your screen, while shrinking usable desktop space
  • Auto-hide when docked: Causes a docked contact list to automatically hide when mouse is moved away from list. Causes it to reappear as mouse is moved close to list



Miscellaneous
  • Show taskbar entry (updates on reload of Trillian): Next time Trillian is launched, an entry in the Windows Taskbar will be displayed for the contact list.
  • Add "Send file" menu in Windows Explorer: When you right-click on a file, an option to send file to a Trillian contact will be displayed.
  • On multiple connections, if statuses are the same, only show that status in icon holder: When many connections are (dis)connected for any medium, its icon in the contact list's medium button bar will display status only if they are the same for all such connections.