Re: Desktop Session Presence Manager

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:42 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:28 +0000, Alex Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:15 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:52 +0000, Alex Jones wrote:
> > > > Does anybody have any comments on this idea? Does anybody see anything
> > > > negative about this approach?
> > > 
> > > Sounds a lot like Galago.  In fact it sounds exactly like Galago....
> > > 
> > > http://www.galago-project.org/
> > 
> > Galago is about getting other people's presence information, not getting
> > (and setting!) the current session user's.
> 
> You can get "me" person in Galago for retrieving the user's presence.
> Setting might be possible if the feeds pushed any changes on the me
> person back to their transport, but I don't think any of the feeds do
> this at the moment.
> 
> Ross

But that presence is backed by Gaim, right? So that leaves it up to Gaim
to dictate session user presence, based on some IM account. This isn't a
good idea IMO - Gaim isn't what I'd consider to be a desktop service!

This idea sits underneath Gaim, or whatever app you wish to choose that
might be interested in *real* session user presence, as in the actual
presence of a user at the computer seat.
-- 
Alex Jones
http://alex.weej.com/