On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Xavier Claessens<[email protected]> wrote: > Le lundi 22 juin 2009 à 12:39 +0200, Fernando a écrit : >> Hello. >> I've started using empathy and I find quite disorienting the colors >> that are used for the status icons. >> >> Every messaging client I know of (Pidgin, Gajim, Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo) >> uses a red icon for the "busy" status, while the "away" status icon is >> either yellow or some white/light color. This color scheme is pretty >> much a de-facto standard in IM clients, imho. >> >> I think that empathy should follow this guidelines, as it's intended >> to give support to these protocols. For me it's quite confusing and I >> usually tend to think that someone is away when it's busy and busy >> when it's away. >> >> I've attached a recolored version of the icons in this email, in svg. >> What's your opinion? > > The rational here is that you have no chance to get a reply from an away > contact, while busy contacts could reply but with some delay. So away is > worst than busy, so away is red and busy orange. That's pretty intuitive > IMO.
Away could mean "away from keyword", and most of the time means; I'm away, but you can leave me a message. Busy, on the other hand generally means; I'm busy, do not send me a message unless it's urgent. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
