On 26/06/2006, at 9:04 PM, James Bunton wrote:

> On 26/06/2006, at 8:56 PM, Stian B. Barmen wrote:
>
>> man, 26,.06.2006 kl. 20.49 +1000, skrev James Bunton:
>>> On 15/06/2006, at 6:49 PM, Stian B. Barmen wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have this issue with the MSN and ICQ transports. When I am logged
>>>> on with more then one resource and one of them goes idle the
>>>> transport goes away.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a known issue?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Stian B. Barmen
>>>
>>> The transport will set your MSN status to whatever the highest
>>> priority resource is.
>>> If you have two resources, one with priority 5, which is online, and
>>> one with priority 10 - away, your status will be set to away.
>>>
>>
>> Both transports have the same priority, but different resource names.
>> Seems the one (darkstar) always is above the other  
>> (gajim_kontoret) in
>> pri. If one of these two goes away and the other is online then the
>> transport should be available in my humble opinion.
>>
>> -stian
>
> I've thought about this a great deal, and decided that the  
> transport shouldn't make arbitrary routing decisions. I'm also  
> thinking of where the messages get delivered to.
> It would make things less predictable.
>
> A better idea would be for client developers to make more sensible  
> use of priorities. That is, if you set your client to available, it  
> should make sure it has the highest priority. If it goes idle, set  
> the priority lower.
>
> I believe some clients already do this.
>
> ---
>
> James

Sorry if that came off a little more curtly than I meant it to :P

---

James

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