This is a fairly small change, which makes social networking a tad bit easier. Especially since it makes it a single click while viewing a person's profile to start a pm to them.

First, we'll need the image file. Either you can use mine (I xxencoded it for these forums, since I haven't written something for you guys to add for inline uploading yet) or you can make your own icon. The standard size thus far is 16x14 or 16x16 with a few lines of transparency above and below (which is how the email icon works).

Since I don't see an easy way to share a file, and the image I created is tiny, here it is, xxencoded. If you go to http://www.webutils.pl/index.php?idx=xx you can copy and paste the contents of the code block below to get the image file. (Just decode, then save to file)



Put the resulting pm.gif into:


Now, lets make the image get used somewhere!

Open


Find


After, Add:


Now, lets do the languages right...
Open


Find


After, Add


And done.

When viewing someone's profile, its now a single click to start a private message to them. It uses a built in function of SendPm to look up the user name, and put it in the To field.

Not sure if you know this but the online/offline image is a link to send a pm to the user....

Well that's a fair point but hardly obvious without taking a good look around. Worth including as standard?

Yeah, I didn't notice that, and present functionality (clicking online status) isn't 'standard' functionality by any means, and it's not something most users will know or even guess at, without being told.