Some ideas I had for Kopete

[Luiz Romário Santana Rios]

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.

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.

Thank you anyway for your opinion.

2010/9/22 George Goldberg <grundleborg at googlemail.com>

> On 22 September 2010 11:43, Daniele E. Domenichelli
> <daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09/22/2010 10:36 AM, George Goldberg wrote:
> >>> Anyways, the mockups Edmundson asked me to send here:
> >>> Old, incomplete mockup. If you don't understand something,
> >>> ask: http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2646/ideiaskopete.png
> >>
> >> At the moment, Telepathy does not support the concept of "identities"
> >> as was supported in Kopete. I believe that if this were to be
> >> implemented, there would need to be some support at the level of the
> >> Telepathy specification (otherwise some applications would be aware of
> >> identities, but others would not).
> >
> > I think that the concept of "Identities" could be more or less like
> > having several PIMO::Persons instead of just "myself".
>
> Agreed. If we were to support identities, it would need to be at a
> much more fundamental and KDE-wide level.
>
> > It \could\ be done, I think, but the only reason I can see in having
> > identities is that we might want to support several persons that for
> > some reason share the same account, or we might want to support people
> > suffering a dissociative identity disorder. Like me. And also me.
>
> Seems like a bit of a corner case to me ;)
>
> > This means that if you really need 2 identities, you probably also want
> > 2 different contact lists and 2 different presence plasmoid, so that
> > each person can manage its own stuff, I don't see the point in having
> > complex applications with all contacts mixed. The only app that should
> > "show" the identities should be the kcm module for accounts
> configuration.
>
> True
>
> > There might be good reasons why one might want 2 identities. anyway the
> > whole KDE supports just 1 person per account (just check system
> > settings/account details) so I don't think we want to support this at
> > the moment.
>
> Strong agreement here. It would be a huge undertaking to make this
> work KDE wide, for very little apparent benefit.
>
> --
> George
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