I think identities are useful when two or more people share the same computer and don't need/want to create several accounts. Or when a guest wants to use their account without messing up his contacts with local user's ones - which is part of my idea, as seen in my first mockup.<div>
<br></div><div>Anyway, I had those ideas for Kopete, and they wouldn't be much difficult to implement over there, since identities are already implemented. But I see that what you guys are doing has a fairly different concept in which identities will probably not fit, so I'm looking for something else to do.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you anyway for your opinion.<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/22 George Goldberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grundleborg@googlemail.com" target="_blank">grundleborg@googlemail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 22 September 2010 11:43, Daniele E. Domenichelli<br>
<div><<a href="mailto:daniele.domenichelli@gmail.com" target="_blank">daniele.domenichelli@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 09/22/2010 10:36 AM, George Goldberg wrote:<br>
>>> Anyways, the mockups Edmundson asked me to send here:<br>
>>> Old, incomplete mockup. If you don't understand something,<br>
>>> ask: <a href="http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2646/ideiaskopete.png" target="_blank">http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2646/ideiaskopete.png</a><br>
>><br>
>> At the moment, Telepathy does not support the concept of "identities"<br>
>> as was supported in Kopete. I believe that if this were to be<br>
>> implemented, there would need to be some support at the level of the<br>
>> Telepathy specification (otherwise some applications would be aware of<br>
>> identities, but others would not).<br>
><br>
> I think that the concept of "Identities" could be more or less like<br>
> having several PIMO::Persons instead of just "myself".<br>
<br>
</div>Agreed. If we were to support identities, it would need to be at a<br>
much more fundamental and KDE-wide level.<br>
<div><br>
> It \could\ be done, I think, but the only reason I can see in having<br>
> identities is that we might want to support several persons that for<br>
> some reason share the same account, or we might want to support people<br>
> suffering a dissociative identity disorder. Like me. And also me.<br>
<br>
</div>Seems like a bit of a corner case to me ;)<br>
<div><br>
> This means that if you really need 2 identities, you probably also want<br>
> 2 different contact lists and 2 different presence plasmoid, so that<br>
> each person can manage its own stuff, I don't see the point in having<br>
> complex applications with all contacts mixed. The only app that should<br>
> "show" the identities should be the kcm module for accounts configuration.<br>
<br>
</div>True<br>
<div><br>
> There might be good reasons why one might want 2 identities. anyway the<br>
> whole KDE supports just 1 person per account (just check system<br>
> settings/account details) so I don't think we want to support this at<br>
> the moment.<br>
<br>
</div>Strong agreement here. It would be a huge undertaking to make this<br>
work KDE wide, for very little apparent benefit.<br>
<br>
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