Instead of having people change their nicks to reflect their away status, why not have their nick on the nicklist become italicized when they are away? I think that will help especially when you go on IRC networks that have really short nicklenght limits and it will save you that task of switching you nick back and forth alll the time. I have seen this feature on another IRC client.
Also, would it be possible to allow for nicks in the address book to include other modification options such as BOLD? This could add another option for us to differentiate the nicks on the nicklist from each other besides color.
Thanks,
Nomadic_Prophet
