System-wide Activities

[George Goldberg]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Hari krishna Anandhan
<harikrishna.anandhan at gmail.com> wrote:
> things like who are in the same locality at that moment. On a side
> note, it would be great if presence also has semantic type associated
> with it (like free, busy, away, etc). Currently these are just plain
> strings and applications have no way to find out what the user is
> doing from his presence (like maybe to direct his notifications to his
> mobile when he is away from desktop), etc. But, that is another story
> ...!

Just for the record, this is already the case. Have a look at the
presence part of the telepathy specification
(http://telepathy.freedesktop.org) for details.


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George Goldberg