Away status is inaccurate when contact is signed into Jabber multiple times

[Daniel Egeberg <daniel.egeberg@…>]

When a contact is signed into multiple Jabber resources simultaneously, the status that BitlBee provides for the contact is sometimes inaccurate.

Example: Contact is signed into GTalk using Pidgin and the Gmail web client. The status is 'online' in Pidgin, but 'away' in Gmail. BitlBee marks this contact as away where I would have expected the opposite.

[anonymous]

Hmm, what do other clients do here? I suppose most of them just show all statuses in their tooltips, but what do they do with the buddy status icon?

BitlBee, IIRC, picks the highest-priority resource and uses that one for the away status/msg.

[Daniel Egeberg <daniel.egeberg@…>]

In the above example, both Pidgin and the Google Talk app on Android would report the contact as online.

[wilmer]

(Ugh. I could've responded a bit earlier..)

Interesting. Do they show the other away state at least somewhere? And they really do this even if the non-away one has a lower priority value? I wonder if this is something I've missed in the RFC or if this is their idea (and quite likely not a bad idea actually).

[Anthony Ginepro <rapiere@…>]

Is there a way to choose "bitlbee's away check" behavior ? Especially since Google Talk is used on mobile phones, most of my friends seem away because they are on their phone but not in GMail, in this situation picking online status from any account would be more accurate. Thanks