On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:15:29AM +0200, Pierre Benz wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Pierre Benz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Johannes Schmid <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Another alternative is to add a "offline" entry under available/busy in > >> > the user menu and start with that active, then autospawn empathy if > >> > needed when you switch to available or busy. > >> > >> I think "offline" is a really bad name as it would indicate to a lot of > >> people that they don't have internet access when they don't switch it to > >> "Online" or "Available". I don't know of a better name but I think having > >> "Offline" next to the NetworkManager isn't a bright idea. > > > > Maybe "Hidden"? > On second thought, "Hidden" is meaningless. The same with "Invisible". > Neither of them convey that the user is withholding their online > presence from others.
Both those mean user is connected and logged in to network, but shown as offline to others. Which isn't good starting point - I do not want to be flooded with queued messages when I only want to quickly use computer. Maybe call offline optione “Not available”? -- Tomasz Torcz Morality must always be based on practicality. xmpp: [email protected] -- Baron Vladimir Harkonnen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
