Re: [Gaim-devel] comments on sean's mockups

[Dave W. <ka...@us...>]

Tim Ringenbach wrote:

> Define a number of default global statuses. These would be "Available, 
> Available with message, Away, Away with message, Invisible".  Through 
> some interface, the core can ask the prpls what status they have that 
> maps to this state, and also whether or not it really supports it. 
> (Note that's AND and not OR, we can hide global statuses for which no 
> online account supports, but all accounts must say what state they go 
> into when entering that global state)

For those that are looking at how global statuses map to each prpl, when 
the prpl creates the stock status types it assigns a primitive type as 
well. So most of the statuses above can be mapped using the primitives. 
Another way of making it slightly nicer from a code standpoint is that 
in status.h we could #define the common statuses such as 'offline', 
'available', 'away', 'invisible'.

As far as I know, there is currently not a way for a prpl to indicate 
whether or not that it supports setting an away message or available 
message. I don't know if something of that nature will be cared about or 
not.

--dw