An important, controversial issue!

[Ryan Barrett]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, DennisR wrote:

> Away == Paper
> Idle == Grayed out

+1. ICQ and AIM have drilled these into my brain.


On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Ethan Blanton wrote:

>> Luke's argument is that the clock has meaning other than its historical
>> context, that it's a symbol that makes him say, "THAT means idle!"
> 
> Now, you all know that I love Luke, but Luke has more inertia than 
> practically anyone I have ever met.  Of course he doesn't like the 
> change.  ;-)  I assert once again that it is immaterial.

+1. using a clock for idle does seem funny to me, but that's probably because 
i haven't used MSN or yahoo much. it doesn't seem fundamentally wrong to me; 
i'd just want the idle users to be grayed out as well.

-Ryan

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