Re: Desktop-Wide User Status

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 12:46 -0300, Steven Garrity wrote:

> > Does anyone know of Galago deals with desktop-wide presence for yourself 
> > too?
>
> If you're sitting at your computer, do you really need it to tell you
> that you're there?  ;-)
>
> Seriously, what exactly do you mean by self presence?  Advertising to
> other users across the network whether you're around or not?  A
> framework for allowing applications to test if you're present so they
> can notify the other users?
>
> Best bet there, I'd wager, is to D-BUS-ize xscreensaver and whenever it
> kicks in, send a signal, letting any interested apps know you're not
> around.  Would be useful for a whole ton of other stuff, too.  (Power
> saving, etc.)

What we do in Gossip is to check whether the user uses the computer. 
After a certain amount of time of inactivity we set the user to be away 
and after an even longer time we set extended away (this is jabber). I 
think someone also has a hack to use it together with the screensaver to 
set directly to away when the screensaver kicks in.

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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