Plasmoid presence setting and displaying

[Lukas]

http://bit.ly/lrDO8S <http://bit.ly/lrDO8S%20> possible solution to 1) and
3).

For 2) Global state is the one user has chosen on his free will in the
telepathy. If there is connection problems and all networks fails, just show
temporary "Connecting..." message.


1) How do we show the user if one of his accounts is different to the global
> state?
>
> If an account changes status different to the global status we need a way
> to see it. i.e I can set my global status online - (all accounts come
> online) then change my gmail status from within the web browser, I need to
> be able to see that it's changed. We need to respond to external changes but
> how do we show this? I like someone's suggestion "online (custom)", and then
> an arrow that presumably expands on a per-account basis. But is this clear
> enough? Would you know what "online (custom)" meant.
>
> 2) What is the "global state" when all his accounts are different"?
>
> What do we decide is the current global presence shown? The most common
> presence amongst the accounts or the highest presence (i.e if I'm online in
> one account, and offline in 3 others) am I "offline" globally or "online".
> Or is it the last thing the user explicitly set the global presence to? We
> cannot take the assumption that no-one else is modifying our statuses, so
> this could get messy.
>
> 3) If my account fails to connect I need to /immediately/ see this. How?
>
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