[Pidgin] #7096: Auto-away on idle doesn't kick in if you're set to DND

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Tue Sep 16 10:42:50 EDT 2008


#7096: Auto-away on idle doesn't kick in if you're set to DND
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 Reporter:  resiak  |        Owner:  lschiere    
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new         
Milestone:          |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.5.1   |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 The following is from a conversation in the !devel at conference.pidgin.im
 XMPP chat room about this ticket.

 (09:21:08) deryni: wjt: I'm not sure most people would agree that
 Busy->Idleaway is a reasonable transition, but then again I don't really
 use protocols where Busy is a status.

 (09:21:48) wjt: deryni: rly?

 (09:22:02) wjt: i guess it depends how you use Busy

 (09:22:05) deryni: Right.

 (09:22:53) deryni: To my mind Available is almost without-a-status,
 whereas anything else could be reasonably interpreted as having one, one
 which should persist despite being idle. If you are Busy in a meeting
 going idle isn't a meaningful change, for example.

 (09:23:20) deryni: And will just confuse things immensely when you unidle
 and go right back to being Busy.

 (09:24:38) deryni: The "I'm busy don't bother me" -> "I'm idleaway (who
 knows what that says about my availability before I left or when I get
 back, but certainly doesn't indicate being busy)" -> "Oops, I'm busy
 again" transition chain just seems odd to me. But honestly I've never
 understood idleaway really.

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 (09:31:14) wjt: the other problem is: sometimes after autoawaying from
 busy, i'd want to become available when i come back, and other times i'd
 want to go back to busy

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