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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 31 mars 2010 à 12:31 -0400, Alex Launi a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Conscious User
> <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>         The problem is that everything you said above does not apply
>         to
>         anything other than IM, at least not for the moment. There's
>         no
>         such thing as "being online" for mail and microblogging.
> 
> No, but there's "being online" in general, so maybe these things
> should be desktop services, as well as apps for viewing.

There's an important difference, though: "the app is running" is info
directed at *you*, while "you are available/busy/away/offline" is info
directed at *the world*.

That said, I do find the whole unification proposal by Remco quite
interesting. A big problem would be that Ayatana receives enough
complaints about favoring certain apps already. I'd recommend going in
this direction after extending the "preferred applications" stack in
Gnome to IM and microblogging.