[Bug 181748] Support setting the presence of an account

[David Edmundson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181748





--- Comment #13 from David Edmundson <kde davidedmundson co uk>  2012-01-02 15:38:09 ---
It's a lack of a UI design that works that's the issue (which is arguably
manpower but a bit different). It doesn't matter if anyone steps up
volunteering to code if they don't have a plan of what to do. (which I'd like
discussed first)

The issue summarised:
 - Currently all accounts are global, this sucks for the use case like you
have.
 - If we do everything on a per account (like 0.1) it's a pain for people who
want to set everything online/offline etc.  

 - So we need a mix - but that sucks too.
  If we show both it takes up a /lot/ of space
  Worse if you show single account in some places and global in another you get
into a real mess. Where it says "you're online" but in reality, one account is,
another one is away. Something we had in KDE telepathy for a while, when the
plasmoid and CL were doing different things and it was awful. It's gets very
confusing. 

There is another equally important issue that hasn't mentioned yet. If you put
accounts in different states, the kded (that controls auto away, MPRIS messages
etc) gets itself in a real mess. This needs updating before we can change the
UI behaviour. (IIRC this was one of the deciding factors for changing it to
global only for 0.2)

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