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An interface for protocols where it might be possible to set the user's presence, and the supported presence types can be predicted before connecting.
This allows UIs to show or hide presence types that aren't always supported, such as "invisible", while not online.
The properties on this interface SHOULD be cached in the
.manager
file, in the
[Protocol proto]
group. For each status s in
status-s
whose value
is the
Unrecognised tokens MUST be ignored.
For instance, an XMPP connection manager might have this
.manager
file:
[Protocol jabber] Interfaces=im.telepathy.Protocol.Interface.Presence; param-account=s required param-password=s required status-offline=1 status-unknown=7 status-error=8 status-hidden=5 settable message status-xa=4 settable message status-away=3 settable message status-dnd=6 settable message status-available=2 settable message status-chat=2 settable message
which corresponds to these property values (using a Python-like syntax):
Statuses = { 'offline': (OFFLINE, False, False), 'unknown': (UNKNOWN, False, False), 'error': (ERROR, False, False), 'hidden': (HIDDEN, True, True), 'xa': (EXTENDED_AWAY, True, True), 'away': (AWAY, True, True), 'dnd': (BUSY, True, True), 'available': (AVAILABLE, True, True), 'chat': (AVAILABLE, True, True), }
The statuses that might appear in the
Depending on server capabilities, it is possible that not all of these will actually appear on the Connection.