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

Chris Forsythe chris at adiumx.com
Sun Aug 19 19:14:46 UTC 2007


On Aug 19, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

>
> On Aug 19, 2007, at 8:06 AM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>> On Aug 18, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>>
>>>> That might work, although I'm not sure people change it often  
>>>> enough for it to warrant being down there.
>>> At least one of us flips back and forth with a hotkey randomly.  
>>> This might justify it.
>>
>> This is an opportunity to offer some data-level filtering on the  
>> contact list, a request I've heard in various forms before.   
>> Clicking an icon down there would yield a menu with options in  
>> some form like:
>>  Show Unavailable Contacts
>>  Show Mobile Contacts
>>  Show Offline Contacts
>>
>> with the defaults being checked, checked, unchecked respectively.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I've wanted to hide unavailable contacts for five years now.

That'd work. It'd be cool if the button was clicked, and then a hud  
looking overlay came from the bottom of the contact list with 3  
checkboxes (sort of like replying to an email on the iphone).

Chris
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