[Bug 269911] Telepathy Accounts KCM should reconnect when changed.

[Francesco Nwokeka]

On Sunday 03 April 2011 13:03:03 David Edmundson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Francesco Nwokeka <
> 
> francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 April 2011 21:01:09 Rohan Garg wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > This is in continuation to bug
> > 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269911
> > 
> > > We were discussing this issue on irc, and i currently have a patch that
> > > reconnects the account when the details are changed, but we reached a
> > > deadlock on whether or not the account should connect automatically
> > > when it's added by the KCM module.
> > > 
> > > According to Martin Klapetek, when a user finishes adding his/her
> > 
> > account,
> > 
> > > they do not realize that they have been automatically connected and
> > > thus they stay connected without their knowledge.Whereas me and David
> > 
> > Edmundson
> > 
> > > think that this should be the default behavior since a user is sent
> > > back
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > > the KCM after adding a account, where their current status is shown and
> > > it's only natural that the account to connect to the service as soon as
> > > one is done adding it.
> > > 
> > > We would like to hear everyone's views on this before changing this
> > > behavior.
> > 
> > I too share Martin's idea. It should be the user to decide weather or not
> > to connect with the
> > recently added account.
> 
> Could you expand on why anyone would add an account but not want to use it
> straight away?
>
> As for the argument "they might stay connected without their knowledge",
> this isn't any different from when they close the contact list. I think
> we're hoping long term to get the presence applet into the default plasma
> setup, that should help things.

It's a personal preference. I like to be the one in control of what my system does. I want it to 
connect when I say so and not when the app feels like to. And at the actual state we need the 
presence applet to see if we're connected or not. ( I have that so atm it's no biggie ).
Though the presence applet would be a great plus to the project as you said.