Review Request: Use type instead of status to identify the current presence.

[Paolo Capriotti]

> On July 17, 2011, 9:26 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > I can see why you did it, however I'm not sure it's overall right.
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> > Telepathy presence is very confusing, here's a bad attempt at an explanation:
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> >  - there are lots of status's defined by "status", this is a string identifier. It will be values such as "away" "dnd", "online". 
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> >  - because we're dealing with strings telepathy provides a fallback solution as a smaller fixed set of statuses as a simple enum. This is to be used if you don't understand the status.
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> > All presence stuff /should/ (but probably don't) be switching on the string (status), then falling back to using the enum value (type)
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> George Goldberg wrote:
>     David is spot on with that explanation :)

Yes, I had the wrong idea about what status and type were. After reading the telepathy spec, it makes sense now. 
See http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101992/ for a better patch to solve this problem.


- Paolo


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On July 17, 2011, 7:43 p.m., Paolo Capriotti wrote:
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> (Updated July 17, 2011, 7:43 p.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy.
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> Summary
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> The presence status does not uniquely identify the current presence, so use type instead.
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> Diffs
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>   account-button.cpp 2ccda54 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101984/diff
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> Testing
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> Change presence in contact list, observe that the presence button's tooltip matches the action text for all actions.
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> Thanks,
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> Paolo
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