Hi

I've just seen this photo of the N810 which shows a desktop widget with the status of the IM contacts:



Is there such a thing on Maemo 5?
I think it's way better than going to contacts, or having a desktop with the big contacts shortcuts

So, no one is interested?

Still noone? I think it would be very useful but I don't know anything about programming..
It could be the same desing as the email widget, with green and red circles for the status..

I made a concept with paint



What do you think?

I hereby express my interest

It will be nice

Definitely would be a useful widget.

I think I might like to develop this, I've been looking for something small to do whilst I gear up for my next mega-project. I'll post on this thread if I get something usable.

adding contacts to desktop takes too much space?

e: the widget duplicates about everything you can do with normal os. sorting within different im account contacts would be only thing that can't be done with PR1.0

@ossipena, I think they just want a widget that has a small list of currently online contacts. I'm not sure what you're getting at, this feature doesn't exist.

@ossipena:
Yes I think adding contacts is OK for your 2/3 favourite contacts, but not really useful for seeing quickly who is available.

@tswindell
Great news If you need help for anything let us know


Maybe other ideas for such a widget:

- add the IM protocol symbol (skype, gtalk, fbook...) on the right of the contacts names

- when not connected, the widget could display our different available status that we have predefined in the "status bar" -> "availability", and a click on them would trigger the connection?