954273 - Set to "away" automatically when locking the OS.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Other, enhancement)

Description

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 840 at 2011-06-15 14:58:00 UTC ***

Instantbird should automatically set the status to "away" when the screen is locked (<Win>+l on Windows, Linux, and Mac at least let's you set a password for a screen saver).

flo also suggest setting the status to "busy" (or maybe "unavailable") if there's a full screen video/presentation, etc. (This might also apply to answering a VoIP call?)

Comment 1

[Benedikt Pfeifer]

*** Original post on bio 840 at 2012-06-30 11:31:12 UTC ***

I looked into the situation on Windows before, here's a rough sketch what needs do be done:

A window will receive notifications [1] on it's wndProc(or was it WindowProc?)-method about session status changes if one registers a handler [2] for that. We could react on this then.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383828%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa383841%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

I tried solving this with javascript once but injecting a javscript function as handler that forwards all messages that it doesn't handle to the normal window proc function failed horribly if I recall correctly.

Maybe it would be worth solving this on a toolkit level? There might be other interesting use-cases for reaacting on session status changes (maybe stopping media-playback in Fx/...)

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.