[Adium-devl] Show Offline Contacts should not be the default

[Evan Schoenberg]

I remember distinctly the reason I acted on #1665 the way I did -- my  
mother had just started using Adium, and I'd explained the concept of  
status to her... and it was very counterintuitive to her that, if  
Adium can be told to send a message next time someome comes online,  
something had to be done to get to those people.

I then watched IM users for the next couple weeks and felt that most  
non-savvy users I saw had a fairly small contact list.  It seemed  
reasonable to default Show Offline to yes, catering to the people who  
want things to Just Work.

Based on the feedback seen.. and the fact that I, certainly, leave  
Show Offline off the vast majority of time.. reverting this sounds  
reasonable.

-Evan

Quoting Chris Forsythe <chris at adiumx.com>:

> I think we should have closed #1665 as something other than what the
> user wanted. I agree with you Peter.
>
> Chris
>
> On Aug 17, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
>
>> So far, we've had seven people on feedback and seven more people on
>> #adium (on 1.1.1 day) asking how to change their contact list back
>> to Hide Offline Contacts. Did we ever have 14+ people in four days
>> ask how to make it show them?
>>
>> I propose two things:
>>
>> 1. Add the Show Offline Contacts menu item to the help book.
>> 2. Make Hide the default again.
>>
>> It was changed to fix #1665:
>>
>> 	http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/1665
>>
>> in r14809:
>>
>> 	http://trac.adiumx.com/changeset/14809
>>
>> I think we should put it back for 1.1.2. Having them hidden is much
>> more useful most of the time than having them shown.
>>
>> As for dealing with invisible people, that would be solved by #7203:
>>
>> 	http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/7203
>>
>> And that's a minority case anyway, IMO.
>>
>
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