[Bug 23963] Support for presence optimisations

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23963

--- Comment #4 from Mikhail Zabaluev <mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com> 2010-09-01 01:37:39 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> > 1. Possibility to disable remote presence updates completely (e.g. when the
> > screen is locked).
> 
> So this is basically a binary setting: on/off right? Either the device is
> active or it is inactive.

Yep.

> > 2. Explicit control over the list of contacts for which presence updates are to
> > be received.
> 
> What would the use-case look like? How would the VIP list of contacts be
> determined? This would have an element in the UI, or would this be something
> the CM determines with internal heuristics?

I was thinking about a desktop widget showing status for favorite contacts. Not
unlike the ones we have in Maemo. While no other contacts are requested by any
client, presence updates for those could be disabled. But this is a lower
priority case, as support for this in real-world services is not yet certain.

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