Google chat statuses

[KurtW]

So, I thought it was just a Jabber limitation that Google Talk was unable to show contacts as anything other than "Available" or "Away" (completely ignoring the "Idle" state) - however, as you can see, iChat is able to handle this just fine. Is there any way to get this working in Adium?

[KurtW]

Anyone?

[Robby]

Hi Kurt,

see http://trac.adium.im/ticket/5315.

[KurtW]

That seems absurd. So a ticket is just closed because "we're waiting on Libpurple"? How is iChat able to do this and not Adium? Seems like this ought to be a priority to implement (somehow, libpurple or not) as it pretty much makes checking availability on GChat useless.

[Robby]

Did you read the ticket properly? Apparently, there is some disagreement on whether this is even a bug.
Libpurple provides all the connectivity on network level so that's where the change would have to be made. That's all and not very absurd if you think about it.

[KurtW]

That's true, and I suppose I shouldn't take my anger out on the Adium ducky.. he didn't do anything wrong, after all. Time to go yell at the libpurple instead

[Robby]

Spot on, heh!

[KurtW]

P.S. If anyone else wants to go make this problem known to the Pidgin people, I've posted a reply in this (closed?! WTF) trac ticket - let's make someone over there listen:

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2581