Re: [bme-develop] status icons

[Simon T. <sj...@ca...>]

> Hi,
> 
> >ps: completely off topic, but aren't the "away" and "idle" icons the
> >wrong way around? The lighter green suggests they are online but 
> > idle,
> >whereas the empty outline suggests they're not actually there at 
> > all. I
> >guess I can change it just by editing the iconprefs?
> >
> I think it's correct how they are now...The idle state is invoked 
> when a 
> user doesn't use the keyboard or mouse for, for example, 10 
> minutes...that 
> means the person isn't behind the computer, hence the empty 
> icon...whereas 
> the away icon is set by the user himself, so doesn't have to mean the 
> user 
> is really not behind his computer...anyway, that's my 
> interpretation....if 
> you want you can change it in the iconprefs yeah...

Hmm, I disagree - Idle often comes on when someone is still in the 
room, but maybe not using the computer. If I'm actually going away, I 
actually set the status to "away". I think the away icon should show 
more "away" than the idle one, as that one the user has actually said 
they are away - idle is more the computer guessing they're probably 
away, so it should be the faded green icon IMHO.

Any other opinions welcome.

> we also should decide how we will be integrating the signed out and 
> blocked 
> icons into the icon prefs file, since they are not really 
> statusses...(and 
> therefore are missing some information that the normal statusses do 
> have)
> 
> regards,
> 
> Tim
> 
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