Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Gentoo Packages for autoloaded protocols, it would be useful to restore the last known status when autoloaded, with whatever away message was previously in use. I sometimes forget to set away status, as I have Kopete start minimised, and this results in (shock horror) people trying to chat with me *g*. If/when you implement per-contact and/or per-group status settings, it would be cool if these could be restored at startup as well. Another thing that would be useful is a single button to activate some sort of "silent" mode. It is often useful to have the various notifications turned on, but it can be annoying if you are watching a film/tv, and messages appear over the top of the picture. A single button to turn all the notifications on and off in one go would be nice, or perhaps an options to turn all the notifications/popups off when not in "online" mode. keep up the good work :-)
... or it would at least be great to get the "connection default status"-setting back from 0.6
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There's no silent mode button needed if you're away and tell kopete that it should not show any notifications while being away. In CVS this also finally hides the yellow bubble (I fixed that recently).
Actually, I think the "connect at startup" option should be change for "initial default status at startup". ... as Johannes Lechner said. and maybe one of the default status available could be "Last one use"
That would be great option! Right now I have to set away status manually every time at startup (I always use away mode when using kopete, never online). Option "initial default status at startup" is much better and more flexible than ,,connect at startup''.
Although disabling notifications while away works well, it would be nice to have a "mute" option in the systray menu as well. This would let the other notifications continue, but suppress any sounds kopete makes, while leaving you in online status. I found this feature very convenient when I used to use Gaim, as I have to turn up the volume to watch some movies, which results in other noises blasting my ears. I'd still like to talk to people but easily switch sounds on/off.
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I've been suffering from the "Notifications when away" thing for a while. I think you should be able to make a distinction between sounds and notifications so you can disable either one, or maybe both, but I do want taskbar icons flash when my status isn't Online, and having sound when it is would be swell.
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To summarise, it appears essentially that there are two feature requests here: Firstly, the replacement of the 'connect at start-up' option with 'initial default status at startup' (containing global_user-level, im_account-level, and possibly even contact-level, options). The second request is that there be options, but also a quick button, for switching on/off audio notifications, and switching on/off graphical notifications. Further, the muting of sounds could be set to include or exclude audio notifications of when a user is disconnected. I agree with comment #5, the 'connect at start-up' setting should really be amended. This is a seriously annoying feature omission for me, and my friends who try to use kopete - echoing what others have stated here. Has anyone tried to patch these? I am up for working on this, but not alone as I do not (yet) have the experience, being new to this.
Bug still open as of August 23, 2007
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I think i'll add my patch. Maybe someone has time to further improve it. The select case must be made better, and we should add an option: Disconnect and then remove the connect at startup checkbox completely. For this some more code changes are needed.
Created attachment 25338 [details] simple patch to be improved
For notification settings, please follow up in bug 51584. "Connect at startup" should be be extended to ( ) Set the x/y status ( ) Restore the last status @Cyrill: Thanks for adding the patch, I was just about linking it here :-) It's too late for 4.1 now, but once trunk is open for new features we can add and extend it.
Hmm I think we should use a combobox with: -Disconnected -Restore exited status -Online -Away -Busy -Invisible Thats cool, no?
Personally I'd prefer two radiobuttons, one for "Restore last state" and the other the combobox with possible status values: ( ) Restore last status (X) Set status (x) Offline ( ) Away ( ) ... ( ) Online
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51584 also talks about sounds
My patch is in kopete btw... so this is fixed I guess.
Closing the bug. Reopen if you think it is still valid.