Re: Text messaging...

Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 18 Feb, 2004, at 23:04, Graham Booker wrote:

> There is another important detail here.  Fire 1.0 is interface frozen 
> for the localizers.  That means that we can't change the interface in 
> any way that involves words.  So the real question boils down to for 
> 1.0, should SMS buddies show up as online, or offline.

Preferably settable in preferences, and on by default (with status text 
"N/A").

It makes little sense for them to show as offline if they never show as 
online (contrast this to a user who never comes online - your messages 
are never received).

It would be different story if the cellphones were reported as online 
when turned on.

> Ah.  Then, for the sake of accessing them, I'd say just set them to
> read as online.  Otherwise, they'll never show on a buddy list that's
> set only to display online buddies only (as is the likely habit of most
> all users).  Of course, Yahoo buddies could benefit from a similar
> change, since you can IM them while they're still offline.  But, that's
> another thread...

And you can do that with ICQ users too, which would render most of my 
contact list as always online.

I probably should try 0.99.2 sometime.

- Purr



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