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-rw-r--r--net-im/mercury/pkg-descr13
-rw-r--r--net/mercury/pkg-descr13
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net-im/mercury/pkg-descr b/net-im/mercury/pkg-descr
index 39834abfeb55..d1aea49a202a 100644
--- a/net-im/mercury/pkg-descr
+++ b/net-im/mercury/pkg-descr
@@ -6,9 +6,18 @@ With Mercury you can do the same things as with your normal messenger:
* Add a display picture (also know as avatar)
* Send files through the MSN server (for people with a firewall etc..) or
direct
+ * Away messages, if you are online, busy or whatever you can always have
+ an away message.
* Play games (Tic Tac Toe and Connect4 only at the moment)
- * Look through the webcam of your friends (webcam receiving only)
+ * Watch the webcam of your friends (Mercury auto-saves these sessions on
+ the disk and can convert them to Quicktime movies)
+ * Allow other people to watch your webcam (= video only)
+ * Audio and Video conference is implemented (both sending and receiving)
+ but still a beta feature
-But Mercury has many extra functions that your normal messenger doesn't have.
+Mercury also has some MSN7 specific features, and some additional features that
+your normal messenger doesn't have, for example: port forwarding for faster file
+transfer, handling of more accounts, having different MSN names for each
+contact, etc.
WWW: http://www.mercury.to/
diff --git a/net/mercury/pkg-descr b/net/mercury/pkg-descr
index 39834abfeb55..d1aea49a202a 100644
--- a/net/mercury/pkg-descr
+++ b/net/mercury/pkg-descr
@@ -6,9 +6,18 @@ With Mercury you can do the same things as with your normal messenger:
* Add a display picture (also know as avatar)
* Send files through the MSN server (for people with a firewall etc..) or
direct
+ * Away messages, if you are online, busy or whatever you can always have
+ an away message.
* Play games (Tic Tac Toe and Connect4 only at the moment)
- * Look through the webcam of your friends (webcam receiving only)
+ * Watch the webcam of your friends (Mercury auto-saves these sessions on
+ the disk and can convert them to Quicktime movies)
+ * Allow other people to watch your webcam (= video only)
+ * Audio and Video conference is implemented (both sending and receiving)
+ but still a beta feature
-But Mercury has many extra functions that your normal messenger doesn't have.
+Mercury also has some MSN7 specific features, and some additional features that
+your normal messenger doesn't have, for example: port forwarding for faster file
+transfer, handling of more accounts, having different MSN names for each
+contact, etc.
WWW: http://www.mercury.to/