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| == Non-Global Presence ==
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| Currently if an account is 'available' and another is 'busy' or even offline everything breaks.
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| ===The situations/Goals===
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| A user has two accounts, a personal account and a work account. When at work they want to be marked as online on their work account, and "busy" on their personal account.
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| When at home they want to be online on their personal account, and offline on their work account.
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| Another user has 5 different accounts on many protocols and wants to easily set all of them to either "online" or "busy" to represent their current state.
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| It is important a user knows at any moment how they appear to others and see if they are online or not simply and easily.
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| ===What's broken===
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| We don't know how to show these presences in a different state whilst keeping it easy to modify all the accounts, so (also due to a code problem in a different module) simply disabled the possibility to have accounts in different state. This stops us moving forwards with activity integration and other ideas.
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| ===== The presence plasmoid=====
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| This only shows global presence and has a menu for changing presence in all accounts.
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| ===== The contact list?=====
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| This initially only shows and controls global presence in a dropdown, but a mouseover tooltip will show the state of each account.
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| We have a hidden method to revert this to "per account" buttons which can be enabled by adding:
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| selected_presence_chooser=unsupported to the end of ~/.kde/share/config/ktelepathyrc
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| Auto Away plugins brings in extra complexity, as we are automatically putting the user to away if they're online or busy and the computer is inactive after N minutes. However this can be fixed with code.
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| Currently we have a concept of "Global Presence" which changes all accounts, and shows the highest currently online presence.
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| === Tasks ===
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| We need to:
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| * Fix the kded to work on an individual account basis.
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| * Work out how to display "your accounts are all over the place" in the presence-plasmoid etc.
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| * Work out how to set different accounts from the different interfaces?
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| * Code it
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| === Ideas ===
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| '''drdanz''': We could add an icon user-mixed (something like http://wstaw.org/m/2012/02/26/user-mixed.png ).
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| The global presence will return this icon if not all the accounts have the same presence
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| When we have presence based on activity we can return the activity icon instead (perhaps with some overlay, otherwise the user won't understand what is the icon for)
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| '''Scotty''': To handle mixed state information it would be necessary at least to open the contact list. My idea is to enhance the list itself.
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| [[File:20120620_Contactlist.png|600px]]
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| [[File:20120621_Contactlist.png|200px]]
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| The mockup was scribbled with Balsamiq [http://www.balsamiq.com]. There is a fully functional web demo available where you can import this code [http://pastebin.com/r6APmhFH] to hack the mockup.
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| '''drdanz''': Another option is to handle it from the account kcm, I implemented this some time ago:
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| [[File:Snapshot51.png]]
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