Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 25, 2007 06:45 AM
I am another one of these people who have different statuses for different accounts all day everyday, and have at least a dozen people on my buddylists who have the same usage pattern (whether or not they use gaim is another story, i think most use adium).
If people have multiple accounts, it's usually for multiple purposes. VERY RARELY do I see people on multiple accounts for one purpose. Personally, I am on MSN for work, AIM for friends, and Yahoo for consultancy. I want different status for each, for example, mid-day: MSN - "available", AIM - "at work, IM me if you want to give me foodz (etc.)", Yahoo - "busy - please leave a message!", and evening: MSN - away, AIM "give me riot chunez plz", Yahoo "Available for Assistance or Gossip". Because of this I still haven't upgraded to 2.0 betas.
The interesting thing is that adium does this *just fine*. Please consult with them for assistance on GUI usability. However, despite all of my complaining, libgaim gives me the power to fix all of this... more and more appealing to make a libgaim wxWidgets IM client that copies the adium interface...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 25, 2007 06:45 AMIf people have multiple accounts, it's usually for multiple purposes. VERY RARELY do I see people on multiple accounts for one purpose. Personally, I am on MSN for work, AIM for friends, and Yahoo for consultancy. I want different status for each, for example, mid-day: MSN - "available", AIM - "at work, IM me if you want to give me foodz (etc.)", Yahoo - "busy - please leave a message!", and evening: MSN - away, AIM "give me riot chunez plz", Yahoo "Available for Assistance or Gossip". Because of this I still haven't upgraded to 2.0 betas.
The interesting thing is that adium does this *just fine*. Please consult with them for assistance on GUI usability. However, despite all of my complaining, libgaim gives me the power to fix all of this... more and more appealing to make a libgaim wxWidgets IM client that copies the adium interface...
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