> I would like to hear alternate suggestions of how to represent the
states

Available: a grey bubble with white tick (✔)
Away: a grey bubble with a white clock (⌚)
Busy: it's fine like it is now IMHO
Invisible: a white bubble with the grey dotted outline
Offline: a light grey bubble with a white X in it (✖)

You can use a grey bubble for Offline or Available, but not for both!
The current Away bubble is also bad, I don't get how "A..." is supposed
to make me think of "Away". First of all, "Available" also begins with
an "A" and "Away", the ellipsis makes me think someone is still writing,
just like when in a IM window I get the typing notification. Moreover,
"Away" is an English word, a lot of GNOME users are not English
speakers.

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