Plasmoid presence setting and displaying

[Ben Smith]

Hi guys, my first post here. I was told that my idea for a telepathy 
widget was posted on the mailing list so I thought I would jump in the 
discussion.

When configuring the status we should make sure to not take away options 
from the user. The thing I love about KDE is that it gives me so many 
options to do things the way I want to do them. That being said, I think 
that alot of people would appreciate an easy way to set their statuses 
per account, as well as globally. Remember, just because it's not 
something you need yourself doesn’t mean it's not useful. I have several 
accounts and some of them with different friends or coworkers. While 
it's nice to have a central location for instant messaging, I still 
should have the option to handle my accounts separately. Eventually it 
would even be cool to create virtual groups and set your status for 
different contact groups, but thats something to worry about later. 
Giving the user more options doesn't necessarily have to take up a ton 
of space or be difficult to use either. I made mockups a while back with 
a very powerful status changer that would be accessed by a simple button 
that takes up very little space. Here's the link to my blog post, and 
attached are two of the mockups that show the status changer.

http://bsmith1012.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-kde-ideas-instant-messaging-widget.html
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