I've tested an application using telepathy against the Yahoo web messenger, and I found some issues: I have account A connected on the web, and account B connected with a telepathy application. - Setting the status of account A to Busy, on the account B the status shows as away - Setting the status of account B to either Busy or Away, shows as Busy on account A. - Setting a custom presence message on account B only works with Away or Available. Setting a custom message in a Busy doesn't show in account A. Also tested in Pidgin. It has a similar behaviour, but setting a custom message doesn't work at all. As a summary: - Busy on the Yahoo web shows as away in Telepathy - Away or Busy in Telepathy show as Busy in Yahoo Web - Setting a custom message only works for the Away status in Telepathy
I think it's a problem in libpurple. See this ticket: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13507
Haze can't possibly do better than Pidgin here, because they both use the same library (libpurple), so this is basically NOTOURBUG. From the upstream bug you linked, it sounds as though this may be a Yahoo protocol limitation. Telepathy does have a way to represent statuses which can't have a custom message (for instance "available" on IRC - you can only have a custom message on IRC if you are "away"). If libpurple gave us enough information to describe the "busy" status as not having a custom message, we could pass it on to the UI. I'm not sure what a UI would do about it, though...
Already fixed in libpurple. http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13507
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