Mea Culpa - I was wrong

[Ethan Blanton]

Charliep spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I do not buy the argument that Icons that include Protocol information
> provide less information. It is very simple to design Protocol icons which
> allso include Available, Away, Busy for each different protocol, and these
> icons are very easy to understand. In fact, for a user who has been using
> multiple IM clients, they are going to be more familiar with these Protocol
> specific icons.

If it is simple to design such icons, please submit them for our
consideration.

Note that we have already tried and rejected small emblems overlaid on
the protocol icons to represent state, as they were both confusing and
hard to distinguish.  The state representation needs to be
a) consistent across all protocols, b) large and easy to distinguish
with respect to the size of the icon, and c) as intuitive as possible
-- note that we do understand that "intuitive" is relative, here, and
the current symbols (green dot, clock, paper) are a compromise.

Ethan

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