The latest Spark betas have included a new “buzz” feature to get the attention of someone you are chatting with. People seem to react strongly to the feature and I wanted to see how people are feeling about it.
We have played with my coworker with BUZZ a little. So it’'s nice thing, but maybe just for a while. As i dont really see any useful thing in it at the moment. So i agree that this button should be moved aside of main controls. Maybe even on the right side of the chatwindow toolbar? Maybe on the top toolbar (near history, screenshot, etc.)?
BTW, is the some command for this feature? I mean, could i type somthing to make the Buzz? So then i wouldnt need to grab mouse and can be buzzing while chating. Or maybe even users with other clients could be buzzing Spark users Though i dont know if this could be useful either
We’'ve been trying buzz for a while now, it has potential.
My biggest use case is when someone isn’‘t paying attention to spark/can’‘t see the window and so they’'re not seeing my message. I have to yell across the room to get their attention, not very nice!
I think buzz in windows should flash the task bar button to show notification and also, activate the tab of the person who buzzed you as the current tab. Currently you need to switch back to the window and then search the tabs looking for the BUZZ word to see who did it.
With regards to the button, i can see the issue with it being next to all those others where it might be accidentally pressed but you don’‘t wanna move it somewhere odd… perhaps aligning just that button to the right of the window would be a better idea. So it goes (Left hand side: Smiley’'s, Spell Checker) (Right Hand Side: Buzz button).
It’‘s a useful feature, no doubt… i just dont think it’'s being implemented correctly yet.
Ok, have looked everwhere I can think of but one of my co workers doesn’‘t see the Buzz button, emoicons or spell check? she updated to the latest version as well but doesn’'t see the icons, am I being brain dead?
Take a look in her plugins directory and make sure that she doesn’'t have some old plugins hanging out there. This could cause an error during iterative plugin loading.
It does not play a sound on the recipients client. Not sure if this is normal or not but it would be nice if it did. I expected to see a sound selectable in the preferences.
Also - once I buzz someone, the buzz icon is no longer selectable. I have to start a new conversation to do it again.
I like the feature. However, I’d like to know how to send a BUZZ to a conference room. This would be used to grab everyone’s attention. Say if the meeting heads down the wrong direction, people are not paying attention, or there are too many people chatting over each other. I’m not looking for anything that would change our server configuration. I would rather get a command that can be typed into the chat window or maybe a future patch.
I love the buzz feature, it gets people’s attention quickly and I don’t have to fuss around with calling when I need a quick response. Unfortunately in my office, there is a lot of screen clicking and the first buzz is often missed, is there a way I can reduce the wait time before I can have a second buzz? I promise not to abuze the number of buzz’s I send
Just started using OpenFire and this is the worst thing I have ever seen. How do I disable it. People keep sending attention requests and I’m doing demos on WebEx and these chat windows keep coming up and shaking. Very embarrassing. No matter what anyone says, there is no GOOD use case for this. If someone wants to read your messages they will. If they are busy and ignoring them then so be it.