Bug 29021

Summary:	Make ConnectAutomatically default to True
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Will Thompson <will>
Component:	mission-control	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	patch
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Will Thompson 2010-07-12 09:02:59 UTC

It seems like if you create an account, you probably want it to connect.

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/wjt/telepathy-mission-control-wjt.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa175aea73bedf5c8561fbe5a602127c923f98b0 is a patch which changes the default from False to True.

It would be nice if the default value of ConnectAutomatically and AutomaticPresence could be configured (by tonking properties on AM, say).

It would also be nice to be able to configure these two properties globally, say by tonking some other properties on AM. Then Empathy could show UI like this:

  [×] Automatically connect on startup

  Default status: ( ) Available
                  (o) Busy
                  ( ) Invisible

and implement it by setting two properties rather than 2 × n properties.

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2010-07-12 09:36:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> It seems like if you create an account, you probably want it to connect.
> 
> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/wjt/telepathy-mission-control-wjt.git;a=commitdiff;h=fa175aea73bedf5c8561fbe5a602127c923f98b0
> is a patch which changes the default from False to True.

Note that (a) it's already possible for account creators to set ConnectAutomatically at create time, and (b) MC doesn't actually do anything with this property, and won't until Bug #27364 is fixed.

I have no particular objection to the patch, but it seems unwise for account creation UIs to rely on this having happened.

> It would be nice if the default value of ConnectAutomatically and
> AutomaticPresence could be configured (by tonking properties on AM, say).

Since this requires API, I think these should be part of Bug #24104.

Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2010-09-14 05:09:27 UTC

13:05 < wjt> yes. note that it does in fact make accounts connect automatically 
             on the desktop
13:05 < wjt> which can be surprising if you're not expecting it
...
13:06 < wjt> so if running mc-tool makes MC start, the ConnectAutomatically 
             accounts sign in
...
13:07 < smcv> yeah on second thoughts this is a job for 5.7 man
13:07 < smcv> along with API to set the default
13:07 < smcv> I think Empathy 2.32 basically assumes it'll be false

Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2013-10-14 16:27:59 UTC

Let's apply the default answer to "yeah we should do this one day but I don't know what it will break" - change it in next.

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 19:34:31 UTC

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