Disabling presence control when no network is available

[David Edmundson]

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Martin Klapetek
<martin.klapetek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> me and David brainstormed the presence handling a bit and we came up with
> the idea of disabling the presence controls when you have no network. This
> way we can supress all errors when there is no network and prevent
> situations when Tp gets stucked in a connecting state even if you have no
> network. I did small testing patch and here is how the contact list would
> look if you have no network:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6761102/presence_offline.png
>
> It watches Solid::Networking states and changes whenever Solid signals
> network un/availability.
>
> The presence plasmoid would be changed in a similar way - presence actions
> would be replaced with "No network connection" and some actions disabled
> accordingly ("Join chat room" etc).

Join chat room etc, should be done based on presence, not network.

Only presence actions should be network dependent.

>
> What do you think?
>
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> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
>
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