Package: gaim Version: 1:1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-1 Severity: wishlist I suggest to have additional status in gaim: - "at work" means entity (e.g. me) is at work, i.e. the relatives and friends would interpret this as "do not disturb" or "busy", but coleagues and work partners would understand it as "online" or "available". - "at home" means entity (e.g. me) is having leasure time, i.e. the relatives and friends interpret as "online" or "available", but employer should know as "do not disturb".
It's probably protocol specific, but I insist to have it at least for jabber (AFAIK it's supposed to be extensible). On the other hand, there could be configured groups where gaim automatically switches status for individual buddies. I don't know who is technically involved here, but please pass the message. It may sound funny, but nobody has offered such feature before and here are two real life stories how people deal with it: 1) yahoo and icq offers multifacet "stealth status", i.e. user can declare status individually for each buddy (I don't see this implemented in Gaim-1.5) so my friend keeps switching the status for each individual contact with yahoo/icq client and hence cannot use gaim. 2) my other friend created two accounts: one "at work" and the other "at home", since the gaim installations are naturally different it works pretty well, but I don't like the "hide and seek" part and it's cumbersome for those who sometimes work at home or move together with their laptops. The problem is even more acute when buddies are scatered along different time zones and are not aware about the time of the day, hence they simply do not realize what is going on on the other side of the globe. thanks, marius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
