On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:02 -0700, Michael Knepher wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Guillaume Desmottes <gdesm...@gnome.org> > wrote: > > Le mardi 29 mars 2011 à 10:09 +0200, Alexander Larsson a écrit : > >> Our integration of empathy is pretty nice these days, you set up > >> accounts in the global settings, you can control presence via the user > >> menu, get nice notifications, etc. > >> > >> However, to a normal user, just logging in for the first time none of > >> these things actually work. You won't get notifications from people even > >> if you switch to "Available", and the control center applet will always > >> keep showing your accounts as offline, with no obvious way to go online. > > > > The presence chooser could turn the account online very easily (just a > > couple of lines to change) but that can be a bit tricky. For example, > > user sets his desktops status to away because it doesn't want to be > > annoyed with notifications; should we connect his IMs account with > > 'away' as status? > > As a new user of gnome-shell when I installed the Fedora 15 Alpha, my > first thought was that "Available" and "Busy" referred to my IM > status, and there was nothing that indicated to me that they had > anything to do with the notification system. I only made that > connection from a stray reference on either this list or the > gnome-shell mailing list. My guess is that a lot of users will make > the same connection and be confused when those settings don't seem to > do anything to their IM status (even assuming they knew that they had > to start empathy to begin with).
I made the same assumption, but I verified it. If empathy is running, and I'm online then changing these affects the status that the empathy window is showing. So, it very much *does* affect IM status, but only if empathy is running (which is my complaint overall). Does this also affect other message tray stuff? If so, can someone describe this more? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com He's a lounge-singing bohemian gentleman spy with a mysterious suitcase handcuffed to his arm. She's a man-hating cat-loving snake charmer with a birthmark shaped like Liberty's torch. They fight crime! _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list