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

[Jorge Villaseñor]

I like the green ball instead of that crazy guy for available


On 6/12/07, Hylke Bons <h.bons at student.rug.nl> wrote:
> 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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