Bug 319009

Summary: Client type (phone, etc...) indication in the text-ui
Product: [Unmaintained] telepathy Reporter: George Kiagiadakis <mail>
Component: text-uiAssignee: Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: mklapetek
Priority: NOR    
Version: git-latest   
Target Milestone: Future   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description George Kiagiadakis 2013-04-28 08:33:03 UTC 
I often find myself having a chat open with somebody, to whom I haven't been talking for a few hours maybe and then I want to start chit-chatting with him/her, but I am not sure if he/she is online from the phone or the computer. On the phone, I most probably will be disturbing, so what I end up doing is open the contact list, search for the name, look at the icon, close the contact list. This is a bit annoying. It would be nice to have this indication in the text-ui as well.

Similar thing happens if you don't have a chat open but you use krunner to open it... contact-runner also doesn't have this indication, so you have to open the CL again anyway.

Taking example from others, if you look at the G+ and facebook chat, whenever someone is on the phone, his presence icon is just the phone. It is more important I think to know this information, rather than knowing the presence.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2013-04-28 09:12:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 304057 ***