Lock Screen should set Away status

[Eric Jiang]

Binary package hint: fast-user-switch-applet

When the user locks their screen with FUSA's "Lock screen" option, FUSA should set the status of the IM client to Away, since the user will not be available to answer messages.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This could probably be extended to set the status when the session goes idle too.

[Eric Jiang (erjiang)]

Preferably, this could be made configurable to set the status to any of "Available," "Busy," and "Offline" when the screen is locked.

How do I download the modified Ubuntu FUSA source?

[Ted Gould (ted)]

I personally believe that this should be a feature of the IM client.
The IM client should set the status based on anyone locking the screen
whether it is done by the FUSA applet or another mechanism.

I'm going to mark this bug as Invalid, not because I think that it is an
invalid use case, but more because I don't think it should be
implemented in FUSA. Please file it with the IM client you are using.

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 22:29 +0000, Mazin wrote:
> How do I download the modified Ubuntu FUSA source?

To get the source of any package in Ubuntu you can do:

    apt-get source <package name>

Where for FUSA that would be:

    apt-get source fast-user-switch-applet

But, in this case the patch you're interested in is maintained in
Bazaar, so it would probably be easier to create a branch and edit it
there. You can then do a merge proposal.

https://code.launchpad.net/~ted-gould/fast-user-switch-applet/show_status

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Ted, I agree - in fact, Pidgin already sets away status based on idle time of the IM client. I'm sure it could easily be extended to set away status when the screen is locked. I might open another report for this.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Any news about this? I think it could be a great feature. Chris, did you opened another bugreport as said?