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[Walter Wittel <wittelw@xxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO Online Status and IM availability should be separate indicators.
The network is connectivity is much broader and for all applications
(including checking for updates, browsing, many other services you may
be using). It is also important to provide toggles for wireless for
boarding airplains, bus w/o wi-fi, etc.

I do think it would be nice to have the two indicators talk. For
instance if you toggled your IM status to available it could check
connectivity and if offline request that the Online Status indicator
request the user find a connection. Likewise if the user turned off
wireless it could inform the IM icon so the availability status could
be changed.

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 03:39, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Here is the blueprint wiki page:
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BluePrints/OnlineStatus
>>
>> It's got some cruft in there, but the basics are a set of tests that
>> when combined together produce a status.
>
> thanks, Martin.
> a thought on this: can we merge the personal availability bubble from the
> me-menu indicator with the network indicators online indication somehow?
> a) it's a more social/personal way of informing the user instead of
> ambigious techno symbols..
> b) IM availability and Online Status are directly related by nature
> note: taking IM offline doesn't mean going offline.
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