I realize that one of the prominent features of the OneTeam client is the ability to display a photo for contacts, but I’d rather not use this.

If I do not add a photo to my contacts, the OneTeam client attempts to display the contact’s name instead. This doesn’t work very well, since the names are often larger than the contact icon, resulting in compressed and overlapping text.

Is there a way to configure the client to list the contacts in some manner that can be read (like one contact per line), instead of using the photo/icon feature?

Thanks for any help offered.

In fact OneTeam Desktop uses the avatar set by your contacts: you do not add an avatar for each of your contact. The otherway round, it is encouraged to upload an avatar in you account, so that your contacts can see it.

Anyway, to answer your question, you can right-click on a contact, and “Change nickname”, so that it fits inside those cards.

Nicolas;

Thank you for your quick reply.

I do not think that changing the nickname will help. The contacts are being pushed out from a Jabber server as a managed roster, so clients do not have the ability to change the displayed name of contacts (this is what we want - it is a corporate IM server and we would like to display the “correct” names).

Is there any way to display contacts without using the card?

I am in agreement with tb9999.

OneTeam for iPhone or iPad is the perfect «Company Communicator», however OneTeam just doesn’t work.
Our non-profit has around 650 users currently enabled to use XMPP. All of these users receive a forced roster where all names are conformant to a specific standard Name + Identifier (Chris Leduc, LEDU) for example.

Now, if everyone adds a picture — here again, we’re pushing it to the server, so everyone HAS a picture — we can’t see the names of the contacts. With the best intentions possible, I am unable to know exactly who is who in such a large group. A name would be more helpful… ;-)

Cheers
Chris

Allow me to answer the rhetorical question ;-)

«Visual Contact List — Isn’t it easier to remember a contact list rather than some john247?»
— Not for me. ;-)

Thanks very much, we will consider this feedback.

Do you have any wish on how to handle this display?

Note that you can hover contact cards, and then get a more detailed view, with name, avatar, JID, subscriptions and resources. We will improve this view as well, it’s in the roadmap.

In OneTeam for iPhone/iPad, we display contacts as a list, not as cards.

Nicolas Vérité - 06 June 2011 10:12 AM

Thanks very much, we will consider this feedback.

Thank you very much, this is much appreciated!

Nicolas Vérité - 06 June 2011 10:12 AM

Do you have any wish on how to handle this display?

To be honest, I can see how only seing images can be very cool in a smaller company / organization / team setup, and they will probably want to keep it that way. However a more classical approach, such as in iChat, MS Lync or as you pointed below for OneTeam iPhone would be nice too. The iPhone/iPad implementation is great actually!

Nicolas Vérité - 06 June 2011 10:12 AM

Note that you can hover contact cards, and then get a more detailed view, with name, avatar, JID, subscriptions and resources. We will improve this view as well, it’s in the roadmap.

That’s true. However, if at a given point 50 people are online, and you need to have them in contacts, but you’ve never seen them face to face — only by name, it’s running against the idea of the visual contact list. I think both options are exciting, teams that are well acquainted will use visual, and more anonymous teams like ours (we’re scattered all over the world) will use lists like in OneTeam iOS.

Nicolas Vérité - 06 June 2011 10:12 AM

In OneTeam for iPhone/iPad, we display contacts as a list, not as cards.

Which is great… while we’re at it — maybe some people prefer pictures only?

Maybe another inspiration… Do you know how the Facebook app has these icons on the home page?…

By the way, maybe you wish to try a preview of OneTeam Desktop beta2. We will release the real beta2 soon.

The version beta1 had already that “search contact” field in the contact list window, the version beta2 adds an “Open discussion…” in the menu, toolbar buttons and as a shortcut. This is very interesting since it saves a lot of time, when you want to just start a chat without having to look for your contacts though groups or presences.

Nicolas Vérité - 06 June 2011 10:23 AM

By the way, maybe you wish to try a preview of OneTeam Desktop beta2. We will release the real beta2 soon.

The version beta1 had already that “search contact” field in the contact list window, the version beta2 adds an “Open discussion…” in the menu, toolbar buttons and as a shortcut. This is very interesting since it saves a lot of time, when you want to just start a chat without having to look for your contacts though groups or presences.

Of course, Nicolas! :-) We’re staying tuned for the Beta release!