When do I disconnect? Or, research on the "disconnect on close" issue

[Rohan Garg]

I would *really* appreciate it if there was no dialog when quitting the
contact list because when i close a app, i just want to quit it and not be
annoyed by silly dialog's asking me if i really want to quit or go offline,
on the other hand i quite like the idea of having a option in the presence
plasmoid which lets you set what you want to do with the contact list.
Another option would be differentiate "Close" vs "Quit" :
Close : Just close the contact list, don't disconnect ( Keycombo : Alt + F4
)
Quit :  Quit the contact list whilst disconnecting any connected accounts (
Keycombo : Ctrl + Q )

Just my 2 cents ;)

Regards
Rohan Garg


On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:58 AM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Francesco Nwokeka
> <francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 27 April 2011 17:33:27 Dario Freddi wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 27 April 2011 16:24:46 George Goldberg wrote:
> >> > That bug report has a description of what is needed to solve this
> >> > problem properly. It also says Dario volunteered to implement it, so
> >> > I'll leave it to him to comment on how far he's got with that.
> >> > Upstream aren't going to implement it - it's down to us to make it
> >> > happen (including any changes to upstream projects (mission-control
> >> > etc)).
> >>
> >> Erm, wait - I did not actually volunteer to implement it, but I was
> waiting
> >> for news like David was to be honest, there was probably a
> >> misunderstanding. That said, I can look into the issue indeed.
> >
> > Hi guys. I have a solution that may be quite simple and would release us
> from the pain of having to
> > do who knows what kind of c++/dbus kde ass kicking mc guyver magic.
> >
> > Why don't we simply show a dialog box on the contactlist exit that asks
> the user : "You are about to
> > close the contact list. Do you want to disconnect too?" with a checkbox
> for keeping that setting
> > effective all times.
> >
> > What do you say?
>
> We have a good plan for KDE Tp 0.2, especially as Dario has found out
> how to do ref counting in plasma, however realistically it's not there
> yet. I think we need a short-term solution such as this.
>
> I think your proposal makes a lot of sense, though maybe we need a bit
> of tweaking on the message.
>
> My suggestion:
>
> When you close the contact list, you will still remain online
> available to all your contacts. If you also use the telepathy presence
> applet you can control your presence here.
>
>          [Stay Online] [Disconnect my accounts]
>
> (I'm not sure if we can do buttons with the dialog that has the "do
> not show again" button", but we can deal with that later.)
>
>
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