Fixing presence icons, was Re: I HATE the lack of protocol icons

[Hylke Bons]

I once suggested using the current Person/Group icon for available. Because
1. Pidgin is about people, and 2. available is the most neutral status
there is, it
makes sense to me to use a small figure here (and it blends nicely with
the chat icon).

Hylke



Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Chase wrote:
>
>> The only "fix" is to allow custom presence icons. Give the ability to 
>>
>> select a default set of icons, a per group set, and an individual 
>>
>> contact set. The most specific set being the one that takes affect.
>>
>>
>> Pidgin could ship with the both the generic set and the protocol 
>>
>> specific sets. Have a drop down in the Add Buddy wizard so that the 
>>
>> presence icon set can be selected during an add. Or some type of global 
>>
>> default.
>>
>>
>> And if you allow user supplied presence icon packs people will go nuts 
>>
>> creating icon packs for work vs personal contacts, geographical 
>>
>> locations, male/female, game server location, etc.
>>
>
> *reads it three times*
>
> Is that level of granularity something that anyone would comprehend or
> want?  If I even had the possibility of having every group using a
> different set of presence icons I think I'd go crazy.
>
> -Evan
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