Bug 133825

Summary:	indicate contact going online/offline by changing background colour for some seconds
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	S. Burmeister <sven.burmeister>
Component:	Contact list	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description S. Burmeister 2006-09-09 23:18:59 UTC

Version:           0.12.2 (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I have been using Gajim now for some time because of its Jabber MUC-functionality.

One thing, as minor as it is, I like about it, is that it makes contacts going online/offline more visible than kopete.

Whereas kopete just blinks, Gajim changes the background of the whole contact-row going online/offline for some seconds (~4) to a dark green (online) or dark red (offline).

I think this is a very intuitive signal to the user, although red/green might not be the best choice in terms of accessibility. 

In fact this concept could be expanded to signaling that a message from that user is waiting. The current mail-icon showing in place of the avatar does not look very nice because is seems increased to an extent that it becomes blury. For me it sometimes even results in the avatar not being displayed until kopete is restarted.

Comment 1 Henrik Pauli 2006-10-06 08:54:21 UTC

Tagging this — I support the idea.  Additionally, AIM (the old 5.x series and before) do this kind of thing with *bold* (for freshly on-line), and /italic/+greyed out (for freshly off-line).  I also quite dig that, it’s easier to catch that in the list than hunting for a flashing icon.

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:34:49 UTC

Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.