Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources OS: Linux Kopete's away message handling doesn't work very well for the way I like to use away messages. When I use Gaim, I keep a large list (possibly 30 or 40) of away messages saved with titles so I can pick the one I want quickly. Most of my saved messages are pretty lengthy, span multiple lines and include HTML. Kopete supports none of these things. I'd like to see: - A way to explicitly save and reuse away messages, without worrying that they'll fall off the end of the recently-used list and disappear forever. - Support for multi-line away messages. - Support for HTML embedded in away messages (yes, I know not all protocols support this, but it's easy to strip out for those that don't). Why the recently-used list isn't enough: - Messages don't have titles. I have to read and parse the beginning of every message in the list to find the one I want. - Messages that haven't been used for a long time can get kicked off the end, even if I still want them. The only way around this is to drastically increase the size of the list, which has the side effect of saving one-off messages I don't want. - Messages get re-ordered every time I use them (the most recent floats to the top). So I have to scan the *whole* list looking for a message, because they move around and I won't know where I (approximately) need to look. I don't think adding these features would detract from the current uses of Kopete away messages ... you could keep the recently-used functionality, if you wanted, and still have saved messages. Also, when doing "one-off" away messages, the only noticeable interface difference would be a multi-line text box that supports HTML instead of a single-line text box (and perhaps use Ctrl+Enter to put up the message instead of Enter, which now breaks lines). Away message handling is the *only* thing about Kopete that annoys me and the only thing that occasionally drives me back to Gaim (though never permanently). ;) Thanks!
I would like to see a feature to have one list of maybe temporary/recently-used away messages like it has now, but I also to have one submenu maybe with static/permanent away messages that I want to use often and don't want to get kicked off the list.
I agree with everything that's been said. I also like to keep a list of saved away messages (funny quotes, common things that I'm doing, etc.) and then I choose one to use. I also often have long messages so I'd really like to have a text box instead of just a line! The html isn't so important for me, but it would be nice.
Same here (yes, I know, there's already a whole bunch of wishlist entries for this feature). And if you don't have time to implement this stuff before the release of v1.0 or whatever, it'd be a huge improvement already if the current away message would be in the input box where you enter a new away message, so that - if you're only changing a part of it - you don't have to retype the whole thing. Besides, it's kinda annoying that a "Global Away" message is shown in the status bar down left, but this message is anything but global. Rather, it only goes for one of the protocols.
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I believe this has been implemented in the KDE4 versions of Kopete. (The new status system has certainly addressed saving status messages.) So I would consider this bug resolved. There's no recently-used functionality in the new status system, however. If anyone is still interested in this, perhaps open a new wishlist bug.