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["frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx" <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello there,

today, i'm kinda lazy, so i'll just get straight to the point without a lot
of introduction:

Presence in the MeMenu should focus absolutely on how to display and handle
custom status.
Custom status meaning the state of presence you design yourself, e.g. "in a
meeting" with "BUSY" or "AWAY" on it.

With favourites in empathy available now, we could pin our list of favourite
contacts to the MeMenu, as "Me favourites" ;)
even when offline or invisible, we would then see their last custom state or
public status message.

For the text field, which would then be primarily for personal (custom)
status aka Me-status we could also introduce a checkbox for "publish", which
would then send my custom status to those Activity Streams¹ that are
enabled.
The whole discussion about why how and where to coordinate 2 seperate text
fields in the MeMenu, one for broadcasting status and one for status, seems
unnecessary to me, considering the solution presented here..

thoughts?

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activity_stream