Re: [Gaim-devel] MSN blocked buddy icon

[Felipe C. <al5...@ma...>]

Christian Hammond wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:27:40PM +0200, Xan wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I use gaim and another MSN clients (as amsn). If you block some buddy in MSN, 
>>in amsn you see that he/she is blocked because he/she appears with different 
>>icon (typically with no way on MSN icon). But in gaim not. So there is no 
>>easy way to see if one or another buddy is blocked in MSN (and I think that 
>>the same happens in Jabber).
>>
>>I think that it's no so difficult to show different icon for MSN blocked 
>>users. Combinning /pixmaps/offline.png and /status/default/msn.png, I create 
>>msn-blocked.png as an example that I say. (I know that any designer will do 
>>this better ;).
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>We have code that will put the right emblem on the icon, so using a
>custom blocked png isn't the best way to do this.
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>We don't show blocked users in the buddy list because if you block a
>user, you typically don't want to see them around anymore. That's what
>the privacy dialog is for. However, we do need a new UI and a new API
>for that, but I don't think we should show them in the buddy list.
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That's probably true for most Gaim users and users of some other clients,
but in MSN is common to have blocked users on your list and actually see
that they are online.

Just imagine the case in which somebody is angry with his girlfriend and
blocks her, but wants to see when she is online, and actually reads her
nickname it says "please forgive me" or something... I hope you get the
point.

I also would like to see a small icon when I blocked someone... actually I
would like to see if that person has me on his/her list, somewhat like the
subscription of jabber.

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Felipe Contreras