Re: [Gaim-devel] Pref Tab Slashing 3: Buddy List and Away/Idle

[Richard L. <rl...@wi...>]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:50 -0500, Kevin M Stange wrote:
> Richard Laager wrote:
> > > As the buddy list is a representation of other people's statuses, I
> > > thought maybe we should combine the Buddy List and Away/Idle preference
> > > tabs into a new first tab named Status.
> 
> I disagree.  The buddy list deals with status for users you communicate
> with, but all away/idle related items all refer to the user's own
> status.  Merging these concepts would not be clear to the user, in my
> opinion, especially given the buddy list preferences don't really have
> anything to do directly with their status, but more how they are listed.

I'm ready to concede that this was a bad idea. As I said, I wasn't even
sure of it myself.

Richard