Plasmoid presence setting and displaying

[Francesco Nwokeka]

On Friday 27 May 2011 20:29:28 Ben Smith wrote:
> 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-widge
> t.html

Hi and welcome to the kde-tp mailing list.
I saw your comment on my blog and I liked your idea. Your idea for setting presences is quite nice 
in fact and I'm thinking about implementing it. But my fear is the following: more options you give 
to the users, the more they complain. 
Let's take a look at "empathy" (our sworn enemy :P) for example. I tried it today on a virtual 
machine with ubuntu 11.04. They're like windows/mac way of thinking: "give the user few options and 
that's it".
I'm usualy contrary to this way of thinking because I think the user should have the right to do as 
many things as possible with a program but their method works. Users have only the global presence 
setting for the chat accounts.
This way they keep things simple for themselves (devs) and don't delude too many people. So I might 
be considering this option.