[mICQ] Notification of incoming messages during auto-away

[Martin Stubenschrott]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 07:24:10PM +0100, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> Any preference how to appropriately call the option? "count_messages_even_
> when_manually_changed_to_na_or_away" is somewhat long. :)

I didn't really found a good name either :(

Maybe just:

show_message_summary_while_away

But that's still not really optimal.

Do you really want different options for showing this message count
while being autoaway and while being manually away? I think, there
should just be one option to show them or not - no matter if the user
went auto away or manually away.

But well, micq is your baby, so you decide :)

> Just the simple truth. I don't have too much time for mICQ, so I have no way
> to plan what goes in what version anyway, only some ideas what I would like
> to get done. E.g., next version will work with Google Talk, but I can't tell
> when Jabber support will be good enough for everyone (it certainly isn't
> now, even if it Works For Me[tm]).

It's very nice too see that micq support jabber now for some time, even if very
rudimentary. Since I am so used to the cool workflow of micq, I wouldn't
like to give it up, just because I want to switch to Jabber.

> > That's probably becoming more difficult, but I would suggest if I have
> > messages from 3 people, and when I write a message to somebody, the
> > count _for this person_ will be cleared, and you are notified only about
> > the 2 others.
> 
> Well, currently mICQ has a count, a last contact and a string. If the
> message's contact differs from the last contact, the contact is appended to
> the string. That's all to it (-> icq_response.c).
> 
> So this feature request need some more to think how it is supposed to work,
> and some more work to implement it. Want to do it?

Unfortunatly not, since I have so many other projects right now, and
it's not THAT important for me. Of course, I understand that
you won't do it, if you have little time yourself and don't really need
the feature.

But I keep the feature in mind, _if_ I really finish some of my other
open source projects which I am currently doing/planing.

best regards,

Martin