2011/5/27 Martin Klapetek <[email protected]> > 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. >
+1 from me. Only thing to consider is that if we put all the accounts online and one of them failed due to a wrong password or network etc., we need a way to see it. So far the only method is the account buttons. Would it make sense for nwoki's plasmoid to read the same config file and show either a single presence changer or one per account. > > --Marty > > > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KDE-Telepathy mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy > >
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