[Pidgin] #1559: IRC contacts don't change status to away

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#1559: IRC contacts don't change status to away
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Reporter:  menesis  |       Owner:  datallah            
    Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                 
Priority:  minor    |   Component:  winpidgin (gtk)     
 Version:  2.0.1    |    Keywords:  irc status away idle
 Pending:  0        |  
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 I have a number of IRC contacts, some are combined with other accounts
 like ICQ. Their status always appears as Online as long as they are
 connected to IRC, even if they are Away. Also their Idle time is never
 displayed in contact list, although it is shown for other protocols.

 As I understand that's because IRC away status is not mapped to Galago
 away status properly.

 IRC protocol does not have support for notifications when contacts change
 state, I believe, but that can be worked around by /whois'ing contacts
 which are in buddy list. Colloquy has a decent support for all that - it
 dims away buddies in channel's user list, and has a Buddy list with all
 contacts and their away/idle status. Could take a look there how they do
 it, that's an Open Source IRC client for Mac OS X.

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