BuddyItem Generic Status

Graham Booker <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:54:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.devel
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The generic status within a buddy item has started to nag me  
recently.  Currently this generic status is a string, but I believe  
this is a bit confusing in contrast to the status message.  As a  
result, I am proposing a change to the generic status to make it an  
enum:

typedef enum{
     STATUS_FREE_FOR_CHAT
     STATUS_AVAILABLE
     STATUS_IDLE
     STATUS_AWAY
     STATUS_BE_RIGHT_BACK
     STATUS_ON_THE_PHONE
     STATUS_OUT_TO_LUNCH
     STATUS_BUSY
     STATUS_NOT_AVAILABLE
     STATUS_OCCUPIED
     STATUS_DO_NOT_DISTURB
     STATUS_EXTENDED_AWAY
     STATUS_INVISIBLE
} buddyStatus;

With this status set, converting all services is a direct one-to-one  
relationship with the exception of Yahoo.  This eliminates the  
ambiguity between the generic status and the status message.   
Furthermore, we can begin to assign icons to each generic status for  
badges as well as using them in the new buddy list.

What do y'all think?
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