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

[Ofri Wolfus]

Sounds good to me :)

- Ofri

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On 27/07/2006, at 20:46, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> 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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