Re: Unfinished things (was: 2.26 Showstopper review)

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

[cc'ed to Xavier for Empathy feedback]

Matthias Clasen wrote:

> Here is something that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
> 
> Jon added 'presence' ui and a presence api in gnome-session /
> gdm-user-switch-applet, but as things stand right now, this work is
> incomplete and will make us look somewhat bad if we ship it in its
> present (no pun) state. Here is what needs to happen minimally, imo:
> 
> - We are still missing icons for the presence states in the user
> switch applet. From what I hear, this was held up by the usual
> icon-naming quabbles...
>   Possible workarounds:
>   - Use the empathy icons
>   - Don't use icons
> 
> - We do have an IM client in the desktop set now, so we should make it
> pay attention to the presence state that is set there. I don't know
> enough about the telepathy stack of modules to know where this needs
> to be added.
> 
> - Maybe there are other apps in our sets that should pay attention to
> the presence state, like Ekiga,
>   but having Empathy play along is the absolute minimum, I'd say.
> 
> 
> Matthias