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#696 Remove unhelpful annotation "eclipse in background"
The icon annotation (the clock......) for users which have their eclipse window in the background should be removed.
It does not help users because they cannot understand what that thing means (clock? time? busy?), unless it was explained to them. After understanding what it means it was never used.
It complicates the UI of saros and does not help, so: away with it!
If anyone is against the removal, i can provide a detailed explanation of why it is not necessary and should be removed to simplify the saros ui if it's not clear yet.
I would not remove this. The clock symbol, well some Icon Sets for Miranda IM use this to display the away status, so it is not that uncommon. What indeed is wrong, that we are switching the presence because the user may take a short look at another window.
The user should change its status manually, or at least, put in a timer before switching to that status.
e.g if the user has switched to another Window for at least 5 minutes, put him away.
I changed the behaviour on how this presence is send. Away indicator is now only transmitted if you are away from the Eclipse window after 5 minutes.
Feel free to fix additional design issues.
The icon does not carry any meaning for users that never used miranda.
Even if Miranda uses the icon, it still is ambiguous and a bad design choice.
I don't know when this feature could actually provide help. I cannot think of even a single situation in where this feature makes any sense.
If no one can provide at least one example for real use, I will insist on removing this feature, because it makes users think unnecessarily (waste their time) and is a piece of code that needs to be maintained without any benefits. It's yet another piece of "information" in the saros view which makes it harder to understand Saros.
Not significantly, but it makes a difference. The color codings of the buddy icons are also an ambiguous mess...
Argumenting that it helps users to determine if the user that was invited is currently "away" and won't see the invitation and thus won't react soon: well i haven't seen anyone use saros without having some sort of Skype-like software running to coordinate saros sessions outside of eclipse.