[Gossip-dev] Improvement Ideas

[Jordi Mallach]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:05:59PM +0100, Richard Hult wrote:
> This is not exactly the same thing. The main reason for not having an
> away state that "sticks" when you're at the computer is because it's so
> easy to forget to say you're available when you are. The invisible thing
> is meant for privacy reasons, and is better for that, instead of faking
> that you are not at the computer by abusing the away state for that.

I'm with Richard here. There's a clear use case for "invisibility",
as long as this is the standard way to "do it" in jabber.

Making a sticky away mode is different though. I had a hard time
digesting it when it was introduced as I was used to "hide" from people
under an away state. The problem is that more often that doing it on
purpose, I'd forget to change my state back to something sane.

After a week or so, I started to see this is the right thing. I see no
reason to lie about your state, more if we get invisibility.

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