Re: [Ekiga-list] Visual feedback when doing ekiga -c calls

[Alec Leamas <leamas alec gmail com>]

yannick wrote:
> Le mercredi 04 février 2009 à 15:08 +0100, Alec Leamas a écrit :
>   
> > Yes, I'm missing something: the "called" state, waiting to pick up
> > the 
> > phone. Embarrasing. But not a problem, in this case there is a
> > powerful 
> > visual representation :-)
> >     
>
> What you missed is this:
> you can turn the green tray icon to red or orange using the main GUI.
> This is called presence.
> Green=on line
> orange=busy
> red=do not disturb
>   
Ah, I'm on Fedora. And after following the presence discussion for 
Fedora I've put it aside. I get your point.

But my point(s) are still valid: there is a need to somehow give some 
visual feedback when ekiga is making a call initiated by other means 
than the main window. And there is also a need to communicate the 
possible fact that  we are not available at all when all accounts are 
down. 

With this said, the green/red idea was obviously not that great...maybe  
opening the main window is what's left.  Other sip-phones does it, it 
can't be that bad...