[Adium-devl] Including contacts as 'offline' for offline but enabled accounts

[Augie Fackler]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Adium 1.2.3 behavior and before: Contacts for connected accounts
> exist; contacts on offline accounts are effectively nonexistent and
> don't display in the contact list under any circumstances (including
> showing offline contacts).
>
> Adium 1.3svn behavior: Broken; only contacts for the first account to
> begin connecting exist.
>
> Future behavior: One of the following:
> (1) Adium 1.2.3 behavior
> (2) Contacts for all enabled accounts exist.  With your AIM account
> and your Jabber account enabled and only your AIM account online,
> showing offline contacts would show your AIM and Jabber contacts.
> Getting Info on a Jabber contact would fail (because no Jabber account
> is connected to retrieve the info).  Sending a message would always
> use the in-Adium Send Later feature rather than serverside offline
> messaging, for the same reason.  Deletion of the contact would have to
> be queued and managed at next sign-on (Fire used to do this, IIRC).
> (3) Your choice here, excepting "stay broken"

I'd be -1 on (2) because then a never-connected account and a once- 
connected-but-now-offline account would behave differently, even for  
the same service/UID, which seems wrong to me. The 1.2.3 behavior,  
while not necessarily liked by all users, seems like the most  
consistent behavior possible.

Just my 2 ¢.

Augie