Plasmoid presence setting and displaying

[David Edmundson]

2011/5/29 Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com>

> http://bit.ly/lrDO8S <http://bit.ly/lrDO8S%20> possible solution to 1) and
> 3).
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> The picture in the left displaying all information at once. If we locked
the right hand side of that display out, that's a ridiculously simply solid
solution. I like it a lot.


> 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.
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> Last one chosen is technically difficult at the moment. We could do a "last
one chosen in that particular application", though I'm still not 100%
convinced by this. What if you set your global presence to online, then all
your accounts went to away. That's just confusing. Based on your mockup, we
could simply not bold-ify any of the global presences.

Quick idea, if we only have 1 account we should remove the idea of global
presence - as it makes no sense.

Also with your current mockup, it fails (in exactly the same way) with the
status message and avatar. What if you:
a) wanted to set it differently per account
b) had it already set differently per account.



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> 1) How do we show the user if one of his accounts is different to the
>> global state?
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>> 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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