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Bug 658858 - Hide offline contacts by default
Hide offline contacts by default
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
3.5.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 659239 674431 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 656097 670048
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-12 21:05 UTC by Cosimo Cecchi
Modified: 2012-08-20 16:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.5/3.6

Attachments
Hide offline contacts by default (1.01 KB, patch)
2011-09-12 21:05 UTC, Cosimo Cecchi 		none Details | Review

Description Cosimo Cecchi 2011-09-12 21:05:09 UTC 
See attached patch.
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-09-12 21:05:12 UTC 
Created attachment 196308 [details] [review]
Hide offline contacts by default

I think hiding offline contacts by default gives a much cleaner first
experience for Empathy.
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-09-13 07:53:50 UTC 
Cannonical's usability tests showed that new users were confused when setting up their IM account and no contact was displayed because they were all offline; which is why we changed this default.

So I wouldn't change that until Nick's design has been implemented in bug #656097
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2011-09-13 15:58:03 UTC 
This doesn't sound like a particularly good solution to that problem. The Contacts app is where you would go to see all your contacts. The chat app (or in this case Empathy) is where you expect to see online people. Having to sort through dozens of offline accounts in order to initiate a conversation is not good.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-09-16 13:52:03 UTC 
*** Bug 659239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-04-20 08:14:31 UTC 
*** Bug 674431 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Allan Day 2012-08-19 14:24:05 UTC 
It looks like bug #656097 has been fixed now; it would be great if we could hide offline contacts by default. I'm finding that this bug is making the buddy list really hard to use.
Comment 7 Xavier Claessens 2012-08-20 16:05:06 UTC 
Default changed.

(In reply to comment #3)
> This doesn't sound like a particularly good solution to that problem. The
> Contacts app is where you would go to see all your contacts. The chat app (or
> in this case Empathy) is where you expect to see online people. Having to sort
> through dozens of offline accounts in order to initiate a conversation is not
> good.

Btw, I disagree with this. The current differentiation between contacts app and chat app makes no sense. IMO we should once and for all kill either gnome-contacts or empathy's roster. FWIW I personally gnome-contact, with changes like displaying telepathy-only contacts as before.
Comment 8 Xavier Claessens 2012-08-20 16:06:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> gnome-contacts or empathy's roster. FWIW I personally gnome-contact, with
*personally prefer