Add syntax for changing global presence - keywords

[dan at progdan.cz]

(sorry for top posting, mail client on n9 sucks)

Hi,

I got an idea (which for some reason didn't occur to me before reading this email) to check how the old Kopete runner is doing it.

http://quickgit.kde.org/index.php?p=kdeplasma-addons.git&a=blob&h=be2f3c0a6a8e33444ac60a85cb4f59c9f55edc72&hb=28f6d7cee7e81fda9ba396cc6477370a8ed3ada7&f=runners%2Fkopete%2Fkopeterunner.cpp

They have "connect" and "disconnect" keywords to go online and offline and then "status :q:" to change presence to 'away' etc. I'd like to see something like "status :q: [status message]".

Would this be ok?

DanOn 11.07.2012 15:40 David Edmundson wrote:
We have an outstanding review request  (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105407/) which sets your current presence from krunner.


The review has stalled because I didn't like the keyword used in the runner. However I want to get this merged so I'm poking the ML.


Currently it wants the keyword "go" at the start of the runner (so a user types "go offline", "go away") in order to change the presence.


I don't really like this because:
 - it sounds like an instruction, whereas really we're informing the computer of our current situation. We're not telling the computer to be busy, we're telling the computer we are busy
 - you can't ask a user to type in "go away", in English that's a phrase with a different meaning 


Possible options:
 - don't have a keyword. Simply type "online" "away" etc. (Would match solid, with 'shutdown' etc) 
 - "status online " "status away" (
 - "presence online" "presence away" 
(though personally I'm not sure presence is a word we want to see publicly, it's too nerdy/techie)


Can we have a brainstorm, throw out some ideas, and try and get a majority vote on something.


Dave