Plasmoid presence setting and displaying

[Martin Klapetek]

2011/5/27 David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>

>
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Francesco Nwokeka <
> francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:00:32 Lukas wrote:
>> > Unified setting is the best.
>> Depends. How I see it, it's the easiest. But yeah, if I have more than one
>> account, I might want to
>> go online all at once. With this solution we could solve the problem for
>> status reading "on-the-fly"
>> by changing the taskbar icon (don't know if that's possible with
>> plasmoids).
>> But what if I want to go online with just one account?
>>
>
> Nwoki did you see how the old plasmoid worked? there was an entry for each
> account then one for "All accounts". Not sure how this could work for the
> contact list. I don't really like having a mix.
>
> There are two questions to deal with when it comes to global presence:
>    How do we decide which is the 'current' presence to show to a user.
>
>    What would we do if I set one account to 'away' and then all of them to
> 'available' does the first one change?
>
> Personally I'm all for connecting them to the same global presence and
> getting rid of per-account statuses. What sort of nutter would claim to be
> away in one place but not another, but if you take away the options some
> users will complain loudly. Users love complaining.
>
>
>> > If someone want to hide from any specific network, he could create
>> > exception rules in the config wizzard (like checking - do not use global
>> > status, always use the one i typed bellow). That's it, funny mesages
>> wont
>> > be displayed on work account :)
>>
>
> Not in this release - we have no mechanism to store extra metadata on an
> account (and there's no point making one till the nepomuk stuff comes in in
> the summer).
>
> Also how would this work from a UI point of view, in the contact list
> having one button for every account except Facebook, and then one button for
> Facebook on it's own...I can't picture it in a non-confusing way.
>
> Empathy gets by simply by having the global presence and being able to
> "disable" accounts.
>

I was thinking about that - I propose an option to either show a global
presence setting or per account setting in contact list. So instead of all
those buttons, there would be a drop-down menu. This should be rather easy
to do so. I think.

--Marty



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