[telepathy] [Bug 317284] KTP presence applet shows "Online" icon when connection isn't yet established

[S]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317284

--- Comment #2 from S <sb56637 at gmail.com> ---
Thanks very much for considering this report. I understand the other point of
view, that the icon should reflect "requested status" so that the user
understands that it is attempting to obey the user's selected status. I have a
suggestion that might satisfy both this bug and also #302508: While it is
trying to connect, it shows an animated icon that clearly conveys progress,
that it is trying to establish a connection. I like that, and it makes sense,
because it clearly conveys that current attempt to the user. Of course, "trying
to connect" is not truly a status that a user can set for his IM presence, but
even so it useful and not confusing. I would call it a "transitional status".
So maybe an additional "transitional status" could be considered for when the
user has requested a status but network or other conditions make it temporarily
impossible to achieve that status. It could display an icon that looks just
like the icon that corresponds to the requested status, but with a small splash
of color to indicate that it's not quite there yet, that it's still in a
"transitional status". (The exception would be if the user requests "Offline".
That should always be achievable, and it should immediately obey and disconnect
and show the red X.) I am adding an attachment to show what I mean. This could
be a quick fix. Maybe in the future, something fancier like showing a small
animated blob rotating around the border of the icon could be used to indicate
that it is in a "transitional status".

As for the icon not changing when I go offline, yes, I am using Network
Manager. But I do have the "Network Status" service disabled in the KDE
Services KCM, to reduce the memory footprint of KDE. Maybe that has something
to do with it?

Thanks for looking into this!

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