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Bug 587457 - away is auto changed to available
away is auto changed to available
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-30 19:12 UTC by Nicolò Chieffo
Modified: 2010-03-06 16:08 UTC
See Also:
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Description Nicolò Chieffo 2009-06-30 19:12:38 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
- set the status to "away"
- wait the idle time (you can set it using gnome-screensaver)
- move the mouse
result: you are marked as available

Additional question: shouldn't you be marked as "idle" when idle and not away?
Comment 1 Nicolò Chieffo 2009-07-06 18:42:28 UTC 
I see from the code that this is a wanted behavior.
So if you want you can close this bug.

But I'm not so sure that this is the correct choice
Comment 2 Xavier Claessens 2009-07-06 23:14:33 UTC 
This is the desired behaviour, yes. The reason is you are obviously not away since you moved your mouse... It makes presence really easy, you can just trust empathy to set the correct presence automatically for you.
Comment 3 Nicolò Chieffo 2009-07-06 23:15:47 UTC 
You didn't consider the possibility of someone that wants to appear away
Comment 4 Xavier Claessens 2009-07-06 23:37:39 UTC 
That's something that got discussed a lot, and we decided to not encourage users to lie on their presence. It's preferable to make presence easy to those that use presence correctly than giving the possiblity to lie.

If you are on your computer but don't want to get disturbed, you should set your presence to busy and not away.
Comment 5 Omer Akram 2010-03-06 16:08:38 UTC 
Its not the responsibility of the application to lie or speak the truth. It should work as the user want it to.