Sometimes, I want to tell my contacts through my presence status, that I'm "Away for 45 Minutes". What about adding a "Countdown Presence Timer", which makes it possible to actually set a presence like "Gone for 10 Minutes" which starts counting towards 0 (updating the status every minute) as soon as it is set. It could even show something like "I should be back since 4 Minutes" and a desktop notification when there's no activity detected when the counter has reached 0. What do you think? Do you have ideas how to implement this in a elegant way? Do you think this feature won't be used by anyone else but me? Suggestions welcome! :)
"What do you think? Do you have ideas how to implement this in a elegant way?" Depends. If your idea is to strictly have this presence for the set time and then switch back to online on timeout, it could be done as a new ktp-kded sort-of-plugin. "Do you think this feature won't be used by anyone else but me?" Probably :) It's still an interesting idea though. As a temp "workaround" - you can set your presence message to "I'll be back at 5pm" when it's 4:15pm ;)
(In reply to comment #1) > It's still an interesting idea though. As a temp "workaround" - you can set > your presence message to "I'll be back at 5pm" when it's 4:15pm ;) That's what I'm actually doing right now, but as my colleagues are spread across the world, I have to add the timezone to it and then my colleagues always have to calculate what this actually means etc.
What about making 4 or 5 sub-categories of "away"? for example, away, -no definition for how long. -but just for a little -for some time -for a long time -for about _ minutes Elias,this last one is about your idea.The user will input the time space of being away.After the timer reaches zero, the status could just turn to away- with no extra info on it-.In this way, you put in status/presence a probable time you will be away, but just as a prediction, and not a "commitment". All this in theory..... what do you think?
Git commit 20f845ce0c2e828700a79efd455f9700deafb1d7 by James D. Smith. Committed on 22/11/2017 at 01:03. Pushed by smithjd into branch 'master'. Independent account presences. Activities support. Make unit testing compile. Implement status message parser with Now Playing. Status message parser unit testing. REVIEW: 130192 Related: bug 284517, bug 293443, bug 297924, bug 334542 M +5 -3 CMakeLists.txt A +208 -0 account-status-helper.cpp [License: LGPL (v2.1+)] A +115 -0 account-status-helper.h [License: LGPL (v2.1+)] M +31 -41 autoaway.cpp M +4 -8 autoaway.h D +0 -62 autoconnect.cpp D +0 -99 autoconnect.h M +0 -2 config/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -80 config/nowplaying-lineedit.cpp D +0 -43 config/nowplaying-lineedit.h D +0 -107 config/nowplaying-listwidget.cpp D +0 -50 config/nowplaying-listwidget.h M +34 -122 config/telepathy-kded-config.cpp M +0 -4 config/telepathy-kded-config.h M +10 -73 config/telepathy-kded-config.ui M +18 -27 screensaveraway.cpp M +2 -5 screensaveraway.h M +182 -149 status-handler.cpp M +24 -32 status-handler.h A +303 -0 status-message-parser.cpp [License: LGPL (v2.1+)] A +97 -0 status-message-parser.h [License: LGPL (v2.1+)] M +17 -13 telepathy-kded-module-plugin.cpp M +34 -22 telepathy-kded-module-plugin.h M +4 -1 telepathy-module.cpp M +0 -1 telepathy-module.h M +192 -236 telepathy-mpris.cpp M +33 -28 telepathy-mpris.h M +33 -11 tests/CMakeLists.txt M +3 -3 tests/status-handling-main.cpp A +132 -0 tests/status-message-parser.cpp [License: LGPL (v2.1+)] https://commits.kde.org/ktp-kded-module/20f845ce0c2e828700a79efd455f9700deafb1d7