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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> Yes, the "broadcast field" is certainly a learnable feature in the
> MeMenu.
> It will make publishing your current thought to the world very
> comfortable, i'm sure.
> But please somebody help me understand why i have a field to publicly
> log my thoughts next to IM presence status settings, while i can't
> even inform my contacts about why exactly i do not want to be
> disturbed right now..
> 
> I still don't understand the idea behind this configuration..


The MeMenu always had both broadcasting and custom IM status in
the specification:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeMenu

In fact, you can see that the custom status part is supposed to
be quite rich in details. The implementation just needs to be
completed, which IIRC is supposed to happen in Maverick.