Re: Nicknames

Unfortunately, yes, it is supposed to happen. When they first made this
change myself and a few others complained, but ultimately got ignored

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bigpapaboogaloo wrote:
> whenever i give a contact a nickname, i lose the ability to be able to see
> what their original display name is, is this supposed to happen, because its
> hard to kno wat is in their names when u cant see it after nicknaming them
>

It was actually removed in the latter builds of 8.0.

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bigpapaboogaloo wrote:
> aww thats great :<, isnt there any way that we can restore this
> functionality, cos i remember that usin the 8.0 version and hovering over the
> dp of ur contact in a convo window displayed the name, but its been removed
> in 8.1 beta.
>
> ""Scøtt Lovegrove [ScottIsAFool]"" wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, yes, it is supposed to happen. When they first made this
>> change myself and a few others complained, but ultimately got ignored
>>
>> Scøtt
>> Live Messenger FAQs - http://wlm.scottisafool.co.uk/
>> Personal Blog - http://scottisafool.spaces.live.com/
>> Developer Blog - http://scottisafooldev.spaces.live.com/
>>
>> bigpapaboogaloo wrote:
>>> whenever i give a contact a nickname, i lose the ability to be able to see
>>> what their original display name is, is this supposed to happen, because its
>>> hard to kno wat is in their names when u cant see it after nicknaming them
>>>