[Gossip-dev] Improvement Ideas

[Julien PUYDT]

CJ van den Berg wrote:
> Here's a concrete use case for you which is a common scenario for me.
> 
> Say I'm online and surfing the web, probably chatting with one or two
> friends and generally just hanging out and relaxing. Some one on my list
> comes online. Now, this person, although they are a good friend, tends to be
> a bit of a nuisance. Perhaps they ask too many questions, or maybe it's my
> boss or something. Maybe I just don't feel like talking to them for some
> reason.  They can see I'm online so they pull up a chat window and say
> hello.
> 
> Now, I don't want to go offline (because I'm talking to other people) but I
> don't want to talk to them either. What are my options? If I just ignore the
> person's request to chat they may well be offended and I don't want that.
> After all, they can _see_ I'm online; I'm just not responding to their
> messages.

<presence to='boss at firm' type='unsubscribed'/>

Now you see your boss and (s)he doesn't. :-)

Snark on #ekiga