[Pidgin] #13507: Status "Busy" with custom message not shown on Yahoo

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#13507: Status "Busy" with custom message not shown on Yahoo
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 Reporter:  ciuly   |        Owner:  sulabh.dev         
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new                
Milestone:          |    Component:  Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN
  Version:  2.7.11  |   Resolution:                     
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by ciuly):

 I find it hard to believe that "Yahoo has no distinction between "Busy"
 and "Away"".

 As I see it, yahoo can be "available" or "busy", and in both cases it can
 be "idle" (away). So the "available" and "busy" are statuses and the
 "idle" is a state.
 You can be "available" AND "idle" and you can be "Busy" AND "idle".

 I do not know how the internals of yahoo are implemented, but I do know
 what I can set in the client and that it reports back just fine to say the
 web client, and back.

 Now, the problem with prpl is that it doesn't consider the "idle"/"away"
 as a state, but as a separate status. and that is the actual problem.
 you have (prpl - yahoo)
 available - available
 away - available and idle
 do not disturb - busy

 and the list ends here. prpl needs a status that says: "do not disturb"
 and "away" in the same time.
 The fact that I am available or busy are 2 things, the fact that I am or
 not at the computer (as such away/idle) applies to both statuses.

 The otehr weird thing with prpl/yahoo/whatever is that you can set
 yourself as being "away" but still be active on your computer. which kind
 of makes that status a bit incorrect, doesn't it? You cannot set yourself
 as being away (from the computer) but still being there. It's stupid.

 The correct way of fixing this is to implement "away" as being a state,
 not settable by the user, but by the client itself (configurable time). If
 it's easier to implement by creating another status that say "do not
 disturb and away" having the away icon with the not disturb red whatever
 in center, that's probably fine by any user. People don't really care how
 it's implemented as long as it does what it is supposed to and does it
 correctly.

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