Idle users alpha'd out in contact list?

[Christopher Forsythe]

I think you didn't search the list.

http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2010-February/007253.html


<http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2010-February/007253.html>Read
that first, then see what it doesn't answer. I think the thread answers all
of your statements here.

Chris

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Alexander Golec <
alexgolecmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well I've set facebook up as a jabber account, and a few things come to
> mind. For starters, there is now literally no indication of idleness. In
> addition, I don't think there is any point in showing the jabber address of
> each account in the mouseover. It has no identifying information, and just
> breaks the nice layout of the box.
>
> Perhaps we can drop the old facebook chat plugin in favor of this jabber
> implementation? For starters, it would do away with the major downside to
> the old plugin, namely that it logs you out of the web client by mimicking
> the web client interface.
>
> We would have to make it a little more streamlined, in that not everyone
> has a facebook user name. In fact, I didn't until I installed this, and it
> kind of bugs me that I'm going to appear in google now. We can always
> perform a lookup somehow. The facebook plugin presumably had to do this, so
> we just need to package a jabber plugin and call it a facebook plugin.
>
> Alex
>
> Didn't facebook release an xmpp protocol recently? If so, that'd be what I'd
> look at first to see if that protocol indicates idle just with a generic
> xmpp account. If it does, it's implementing that as an account type as the
> path to take.
>
> At least that's my take on it.
>
> Chris
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alexander Golec <
> alexgolecmailinglists at gmail.com <http://adium.im/mailman/listinfo/devel_adium.im>> wrote:
>
> >* Hey all,*>**>*        I've noticed that the facebook chat plugin gives no indication of*>* when users are idle, unless they are 1. listed as available and 2. actually*>* idle. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to divine idleness time like*>* there is in aim, there is also no time next to their name. The result is*>* that there is no way to tell if someone is idle except to mouse over their*>* name.*>**>*        I'd like to fix this, and I'm like to know where to start. I assume*>* there is some place where global status is determined, and if there is, I'd*>* like to interface it better with the facebook plugin.*>**>*        If there are other protocols where this is an issue, I think this*>* idea could make them work a little better as well.*>**>* Alex*>
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