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

[Colin Barrett]

I think (2) is a bit closer, but it would be nice to be able to  
differentiate between "unknown" contacts and "you are offline on that  
account" contacts and "they are offline", and maybe even "waiting for  
auth" contacts.

Not sure about specific implementation, just a thought that's been  
bouncing around in my head for a while now.

-Colin

On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> 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'm inclined towards (1), as I think for most cases it makes the most
> sense... though (2) would fix the complaint that offline contacts
> can't be seen until the account is connected (e.g. in Applescript).  I
> bring it up only because thinking about the source of the problem ran
> me through (2) as a better choice briefly (about 10 am this morning)
> after which I decided it was a poorer choice (about 10:05 am this
> morning).
>
> -Evan
>
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