Idle users alpha'd out in contact list?

[David Smith]

Yeah, the facebook plugin definitely needs to go. Just nobody's actually gotten around to writing a migration path for existing users yet.

	David

On Apr 10, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Alexander Golec 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. 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> Alex
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>> 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.
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>> At least that's my take on it.
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>> Chris
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>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alexander Golec <
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>> alexgolecmailinglists at gmail.com
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>>  Hey all,
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>>         I've noticed that the facebook chat plugin gives no indication of
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>>  when users are idle, unless they are 1. listed as available and 2. actually
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>>  idle. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to divine idleness time like
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>>  there is in aim, there is also no time next to their name. The result is
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>>  that there is no way to tell if someone is idle except to mouse over their
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>>  name.
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>>         I'd like to fix this, and I'm like to know where to start. I assume
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>>  there is some place where global status is determined, and if there is, I'd
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>>  like to interface it better with the facebook plugin.
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>>         If there are other protocols where this is an issue, I think this
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>>  idea could make them work a little better as well.
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>>  Alex
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