On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:13 -0500, Robert Joly wrote:
> Hi,
> When I started implementing the SIP State<->XMPP Presence integration
> feature I was debating in my mind how exactly that feature would be
> presented to the user. In the end, I decided that the SIP State
> information would only affect the XMPP status message by pre-pending 'on
> the phone' to it but that the XMPP presence state would remain
> unaffected. So, for example, if idle user XYZ has an XMPP status
> message of 'in the lab' and an XMPP presence state of 'Available' then
> when he becomes on the phone, his XMPP status message will get
> automatically changed by the feature to 'on the phone - in the lab' but
> his XMPP presence state will remain as 'available'. The reasoning
> behind the choice of not changing the XMPP presence state comes from my
> own IM habits.
> It happens very frequently that I have one or more IM conversations
> while I am on the phone with someone else. So, for me, being on the
> phone does not imply that I'm not available for IMs and that is why I
> chose not the automatically make XMPP users appear as busy when on the
> phone. Having said that, if I'm in a very important phone call, I will
> sometime change my XMPP status to DND to reflect that.
>
> I do realize that all this is very centered around my personal
> preferences, that is why I will bringing up this topic on the dev list.
> Perhaps it would make sense to expose another user-level XMPP preference
> setting (would be the 4th) that determines whether or not a given user
> wants his XMPP presence state to be automatically changed while he is on
> phone.
>
> What do you think?
Initially (before I had used it much), I thought that the base status
should change in addition to adding the text. Now that I've been using
it for a few weeks, I decided that I like the way it is.
The option you suggest would be ok, but there are two problems with it:
first - all options are evil and if we don't really have to do it now
then I think it's best not to. More importantly, it creates two
overlapping points of control. How would manual changes made through
my client interact with this?
Suppose I've set the option to switch me to DND when on the phone. What
should be my status be after this sequence:
1. I manually set my status to Away
2. I begin a phone conversation (status changes to DND?)
3. I manually set my status to Available
4. I end my phone call
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