Idle users alpha'd out in contact list?

[Alexander Golec]

What would be so difficult about a migration path, then? That might be a naive question, but as far I can tell it's simply a question of a transparent implementation-based migration. We preserve the old interface and rewrite whats under the hood as XMPP

Once again, feel free to lambast me for my ignorance here... 

Alex

> I think you didn't search the list.
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> http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2010-February/007253.html
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> <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
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> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Alexander Golec <
> alexgolecmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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