firefox-style favouriting for Empathy presence statuses

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After I rewrote Empathy's presence chooser to be seriously more awesome, one of the ideas that was floated was being able to use "Firefox-style" bookmarks to save your favourite status messages, allowing you to quickly add/remove messages without having to use the dialog (which is also a candidate for being rewritten).

Well, as my first bit of code to get back into the swing of things after being on break, I've hacked it up: screencast.

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lighting the way
Posted 21/4/09 10:28 — 6 comments

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From:[info]blog.ibeentoubuntu.com
Date:2009-04-21 06:05 (UTC)

Awesome

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This is a great little UI addition.
From:(Anonymous)
Date:2009-04-21 07:49 (UTC)

Nice

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This is really nice. IMHO it makes the dialog even useless!
But there's one point about the screencast (and the last one) that felt a bit ugly to me. It is the whole "Custom message ..." entries in the dropdown. What's the point in those? You can do the same, by clicking e.g. on Available and then type in a message. I think they make the list cluttered.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2009-04-21 07:52 (UTC)

Re: Nice

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It allows you to enter a custom message without passing through another state (e.g. Available). They also allow you to change the state of your custom message without having the text overwritten. They're pretty useful.
From:[info]jimmac.musichall.cz
Date:2009-04-21 08:11 (UTC)

sweet!

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This interface would perhaps make me even use status messages. It's too tedious to do right now.

Nifty UI hack.
From:[info]dannipenguin
Date:2009-04-21 08:14 (UTC)

Re: sweet!

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That was how I felt. I wanted to use status messages, but it was just too hard. Now I use them all the time.
From:[info]blog.irrepupavel.com
Date:2009-04-21 10:06 (UTC)

Nice!

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Very nice UI idea! Why do you need the dialog for?
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