Show mobile status in conversation.

[hackel]

Imported from sf.net Feature Requests item #1389104, was opened at 2005-12-23 14:45 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1389104&group_id=235

Initial Comment: Right now, Gaim seems to treat mobile contacts (identified with a cellphone icon) as regular, online buddies. I think it makes much more sense to prioritize these users below regular contacts, even if they are marked away. The order would then be:

1. Regular online contacts 2. Regular away contacts 3. Mobile contacts 4. Mobile away contacts (if they exist?)

This would impact sorting the buddy list by status and also (most importantly) choosing which protocol appears as the default for a contact.

The issue which brought this up is one of my contacts has his AIM mobile account signed in, but also real jabber and MSN accounts which are often marked away. No matter what I do, the contact defaults to showing his AIM mobile account which I don't want to use.

I'd love to see this fixed or an option to chose the desired behavior at some point in the future.

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Comment By: Cat (midnightcat) Date: 2006-01-08 16:45

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I completely agree. Because I can never tell if someone switches to mobile or off mobile, unless I look at the icon on my buddy list or the little icon on the tab of their IM. It would be great if that was added into the buddy state notification.

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Comment By: Steve Cavilia (stuuf133t) Date: 2005-12-26 18:07

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another related issue: the buddy state notification plugin NEEDS to be able to say something when someone logs out and (implicitly) switches to mobile, and the aim info window needs to show mobile status. currently guifications will show an away of offline event, but otherwise the rest of gaim, except the icon in the buddy list, tells you the person is still online.

[seanegan]

This is incorrect. Pidgin ranks mobile status as less available than normal status

[hackel]

Has this behaviour changed since 2.0b6? Because it definitely does list accounts with mobile status as the primary for a particular contact, if the other accounts are set to away. I don't want a mobile contact to ever be primary, which was the original intent of this RFE.

Also, mobile-status accounts are not sorted below other (online or away) accounts when sorting the buddy list by status, as I believe they should be.

[seanegan]

Yes, it has.

[seven]

It would be nice if Pidgin didn't use a green ball on a conversation tab to identify a person who's connected via a cellphone.

If they're no longer at their computer, I may not want to pester them if they're only available via their cellphone.

[seanegan]

seven: What should we show? We include the status icon and the mobile icon. If you see a green ball and a cell phone, it means they're available on their cell phone. What's difficult about that?

[seanegan]

Nevermind. I missed that you said conversation tab.

[fishpool]

is there a way to detect if a user is using a blackberry for example with GTalk to be used with this as well?

[inko9nito]

It would also be nice to show the away message over the green ball in the conversation window.

[seanegan@…]

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