CLIST

At a stage in the development process, Contact List display and management were separated from the main executable (miranda32.exe), allowing further choice and customisation.

This probably happened as a response to multiple and diverse CList feature change requests to the central programmers of the project. The separation freed time and workload to further development of the program itself.

Following this move, new ideas emerged. There are now several good options for a "clist"-plugin:

clist_classic.dll
This is the standard clist that comes with the installer, and is the clist used by the older releases (0.3.3) of Miranda.

clist_nicer.dll
This clist is the first alternative to clist_classic that was released.

clist_nicer_plus.dll
Published by Nightwish as a modification of the original clist_nicer. Some fixes made to clist_classic were merged and some new features added.

clist_modern.dll
Published by FYR, meant as a continuation of clist_meta_mw which is not developed anymore.

clist_mw.dll
This clist has integrated support for MultiWindows, used by plugins such as TopToolBar, WinampControl etc.

clist_meta_mw.dll
This plugin is an enhanced version of the above, as it provides support for the concept of MetaContacts.

Other related plugins

 * Clist Switcher
 * Published by zazoo
 * This plugin adds TopToolbar buttons to switch between contact lists for different protocols.