2011/5/27 David Edmundson <[email protected]> > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Francesco Nwokeka < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:00:32 Lukas wrote: >> > Unified setting is the best. >> Depends. How I see it, it's the easiest. But yeah, if I have more than one >> account, I might want to >> go online all at once. With this solution we could solve the problem for >> status reading "on-the-fly" >> by changing the taskbar icon (don't know if that's possible with >> plasmoids). >> But what if I want to go online with just one account? >> > > Nwoki did you see how the old plasmoid worked? there was an entry for each > account then one for "All accounts". Not sure how this could work for the > contact list. I don't really like having a mix. > > There are two questions to deal with when it comes to global presence: > How do we decide which is the 'current' presence to show to a user. > > What would we do if I set one account to 'away' and then all of them to > 'available' does the first one change? > > Personally I'm all for connecting them to the same global presence and > getting rid of per-account statuses. What sort of nutter would claim to be > away in one place but not another, but if you take away the options some > users will complain loudly. Users love complaining. > > >> > If someone want to hide from any specific network, he could create >> > exception rules in the config wizzard (like checking - do not use global >> > status, always use the one i typed bellow). That's it, funny mesages >> wont >> > be displayed on work account :) >> > > Not in this release - we have no mechanism to store extra metadata on an > account (and there's no point making one till the nepomuk stuff comes in in > the summer). > > Also how would this work from a UI point of view, in the contact list > having one button for every account except Facebook, and then one button for > Facebook on it's own...I can't picture it in a non-confusing way. > > Empathy gets by simply by having the global presence and being able to > "disable" accounts. >
I was thinking about that - I propose an option to either show a global presence setting or per account setting in contact list. So instead of all those buttons, there would be a drop-down menu. This should be rather easy to do so. I think. --Marty > > > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > >
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