[Gaim-devel] Idle / Away functionality

[Daniel A. <dan...@gm...>]

I just responded to a bug report where the user was wondering why,
even though he set "Idle Time Reporting" to "None", gaim was still
setting him away after the delay he had set.

My initial reaction was to just say "Thats not how it works, Idle Time
Reporting is only related to whether or not gaim tells the server
you're idle.", but that isn't completely true - the preference also
affects what method is used to determine idleness for the auto-away
functionality ("None" is effectively the same as "Gaim Usage" for this
purpose).

Ideally, I think there should be a "Idleness Metric" which
contains only "Gaim Usage" and "System Usage", a checkbox for "Report
Idle Time", and the current away functionality.

Any thoughts?