[Adium-devl] Connect/Disconnect Enable/Disable etc.

[Evan Schoenberg]

So it seems like the single biggest complaint, and it's been a fairly  
common one, we've gotten about the 1.0 betas has to do with the  
changed connect/disconnect enable/disable behavior.

Adium 0.8x behavior:
  * Autoconnect at startup if and only if 'autoconnect' is checked,  
within the account's preferences
  * With one or more accounts online, changing the global status  
changes only the online accounts
  * With no accounts online, changing the global status brings, well,  
a fairly random selection of accounts online
  * No ability to disable accounts

Adium 1.0b7 behavior:
  * Autoconnect all enabled accounts when starting up
  * Changing the global status brings all enabled accounts into the  
specified state, taking them online if necessary
  * Disabled accounts are never affected by global status changes.   
Changing a disable account to any online state both enables it and  
brings it online
  * Enabling a disabled account brings it online (in the current  
global status)
  * Disabling an enabled accounts takes it offline

I feel like we've seen a fair number of useage cases that are actual  
arguments for some compromise between the two (versus just people  
being used to the old way of doing things).  The fact that we've  
started resorted to telling people to hold shift while starting up  
Adium to avoid autoconnect as a "solution" also makes me think we  
should reevaluate this... nothing that subtle should ever be a  
serious solution to a problem.

Proposal:
  * Bring back autoconnect as a per-account preference.  Newly added  
accounts default to autoconnecting.
  * When starting up, autoconnect all accounts which are both  
(autoconnect == TRUE) and (enabled == TRUE)
  * With one or more accounts online, changing the global status  
changes only the online accounts
  * With no accounts online, changing the global status... here's the  
tricky part.
	* If multiple accounts were last taken offline simultaneously by  
selecting the global Offline status, reconnect just those accounts
	* If only one account was previously online, reconnect just that  
account.

Thoughts?

-Evan
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