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

[Christopher Forsythe]

On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

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> On Jul 28, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
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>> How hard would adding profiles with network connection in them be
>> within accounts?
> I'd prefer to think of it as Account Groups for future discussion,  
> as I think it matches useage a lot better than 'profiles' which  
> generally have a feeling of being mutually exclusive whereas zero  
> or more Account  Groups would be used at any given time.
>

Account Groups is a better name.

> Probably not particularly hard, though nontrivial.
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>> The problem for most of these folks seems to be just
>> due to network constraints.
> The proxy band, yes, it's network stuff.  They're a very very small  
> number, though, because having your accounts follow the systemwide  
> preference works fine for most folks.
>

Also a pretty vocal majority.

> The more common argument, which I care about a lot more, generally  
> centers around Work vs. Personal accounts... usually mutually  
> exclusive groups.

That would probably be the bigger use case for Account Groups, agreed.

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>> I have an idea for the UI of it if
>> someone is interested, but I think it would resolve the problem as a
>> possible action.
> What'd you have in mind?  My picture of it is much like the way  
> groups are done in the Status preferences.
>

Well, a couple of different ideas. Most of them revolve around  
something like that though, this one would probably be the easiest to  
implement though.

>> - Profiles could specify the avatar for multiple different kinds of
>> accounts. This would possibly tread into the area of the personal
>> preferences, possibly not.
> This might be needlessly increasing complexity.
>

Possibly, ya, but it might be neat too. Not something for 1.0 for sure.

>> - Profiles could specify a proxy for multiple different kinds of
>> accounts. http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?p=68664#68664
>> hilights why this might be necessary.
> Then again, once the user has accounts within a group set the way  
> he wants -- which generally should just be 'systemwide default' --  
> that's all that's needed.

Would that apply for the guy in the forum post though?

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>> I don't think it's something we should do for 1.0 unless it's super
>> easy, but it might also give us what we need to resolve people's
>> problems with the new system.
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> I don't think we can ship 1.0 as-is, honestly, given the big  
> negative response we've heard in the limited userbase of 1.0 beta  
> thus far.

*sigh*, ya. I was thinking just put it back to auto connect for 1.0  
and then move on to something else with 1.1, but if it's the same  
amount of work as putting in Account Groups, then by all means I  
prefer Account Groups in the shippable product.

Chris