Bug 214566

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.3)

It would be cool if kopete would have simple text-box (as pidgin does) where you can type very easy your current status message without clicking to much around. One field for status tile and message would be enough - the value could be used as both: title and message. And  if you click in the icon to change your status from e.g. "online" to "away" this text-box should be focused so you can directly set a news status. (but it's value should never be overwritten by the status' default message is it does in the current version - this makes you crazy if you e.g. set a link to a youtube video for your friends as status. You don't want type it again because you just changed from "away" to "online".) Even a history of status messages would be nice - so that you can directly select by one click one of the last ten statuses you used ;-)
You see, I'm really in love with status messages but it's not as easy as I think it could be to set them in kopete.

PS: one little other thing I noticed: some IM clients don't use status message and status title correctly. Some use just the message and some just the title. Would it be possible to implement a field in the contact list which displays both: the status title and the status message in one field - if one field is empty, the other field may contain some information and should be displayed there.