Hello, Jiri Baum: > > As with per-protocol presence, I suspect what you really want is > > per-contact-group presence. After all, many services might be used both > > for work and for play (abicollab in particular might fall in this > > category).
Simon McVittie: > We can't do either of these, because the IM protocols and servers we use > don't have this feature. (For XMPP it'd perhaps be possible to propose an > extension involving directed presence, but that'd need server support, > which in practice usually means nobody would be able to use it.) Heh, implement it over Tubes :-) But you're right, shouldn't ask for things the protocols don't support. I was thinking mostly along the lines of per-connection presence, actually... One can also do a more fine-grained auto-reject, but no API is needed for that. > If you want to group your contacts, sign up for two or more accounts on the > same IM protocol and add people to one or more of them, then connect to them > all at the same time. Yes - come to think of it, that's what people do with traditional telephones, too. If they're running a business from home, many people will get a separate phone line (and pay for it) just for this reason. Jiri -- Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.baum.com.au/~jiri _______________________________________________ Telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
