Re: Desktop-Wide User Status



On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:25:12PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Steven Garrity wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >What got me thinking was just setting myself as "away" in both Gaim and 
> >Skype and thinking "should I only have to do that once?"
> 
> No, in my opinion you shouldn't have to do that even once. It should be 
> done automatically for you.

Agreed.

> I really like Alans with having different parts of the desktop knowing 
> when you are away so that it can do housekeeping. I haven't followed 
> Galago development but last time I looked it didn't really target this 
> kind of use. Perhaps it has changed but otherwise, could it also handle 
> this kind of things in the future?

The core of Galago won't monitor the screensaver or anything, but when
the Galago D-BUS service daemon is launched, it can launch a set of
feeds sticking in $libexecdir/galago. One of those could monitor the
screensaver, for instance, and send out a Set Away action (in theory).

In practice, the first release can only retrieve presence, account,
service, and person info. It cannot set it. Setting such info is *the*
priority for the second release, and at that point, such things like
setting away messages when the screensaver goes on will be automatic.

It want everything to just come together. You shouldn't have to set
that you're away or anything. It should all just happen, and it should
happen across applications and devices.

Another goal is to have an intelligent way of determining the
probability of whether or not somebody will be available or
unavailable at a specific day and time. This "predictive availability
scheduler" would just silently sit in the background, collecting
stats. If you wanted to talk to a person, it would tell you when
they're expected to be available, and on what service/device.

So, there are things in the works. It won't all be done at once, of
course, but there are others helping in the project as well.

Christian
 
-- 
Christian Hammond         <>  The Galago Project
chipx86 gnupdate org      <>  http://galago.sourceforge.net/
   "The shortest distance between two points is always under construction."
      -- Noelie Alite

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