Re: [circle] auto quiet

[Thomas Voegtlin]

Steven and Julie wrote:

>I suggested such a thing ages ago, and they said "do it yourself".  ;)
>
why didnt you do it, then?

> I'd want to add also that an arriving message should be held in limbo 
> until there's some kind of user event in the client.  (perhaps mark it 
> in some way?)  If the client goes auto-away, any messages received since 
> the last time we're reasonably sure the user was paying attention, should be 
> shoved back out onto the circle network.  The lack of something like 
> this has irritated me for a long time with things such as ICQ!

how about the following:

1. auto-quiet option 
2. if somebody has already a quiet client running and he starts a new one,
before the first client is shut down it transfers all the nondisplayed 
messages to the new one, which displays them.

would that solve it?

>
> Such user events would be; typing something, performing a search, or 
> anything else that isn't considered likely due to an accident, or 
> doesn't open up a new window which is likely to grab the users 
> attention anyhow.
>
>This is most noticably useful in the case where the client (or the 
computer in general) crashes while you're away.

crashes are a different issue.
however we sould assume that a circle client never crashes.
they never do, do they?

T.