Re: Musings on the contacts user experience

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 06/05/11 02:08, Danielle Madeley wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 17:05 +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> > Not really, we could easily imagine being online without having Empathy
> > running without having a people tab: user will just have to start
> > Empathy to see his contact list.
> >
> > If we don't allow that atm, it's mainly because:
> > A) The Shell presence doesn't have a 'Offline' mode or at least a way to
> > properly integrate IM and desktop presence at the same time.
>
> Am I the only one who thinks this is simple as:
>
> "Go Online for Chat and Calls [ Off | On ]"

No, I agree with you on this. As said before, I think the presence menu 
should have online/offline presence states and the rest should be done 
in the background (for all account types) (i.e. no starting separate 
clients etc).

> in the bottom of the presence menu?
>
> > B) Some things (such as muc invitations, incoming file transfer) still
> > require the 'empathy' process to be running.
>
> I am strongly looking forward to decoupling the empathy process from
> changing account presences when it goes on/offline.

Me too.

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Regards,
Martyn