[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> as part of the effort to make Sugar a more "normal" Telepathy client,
> Sugar should become able to deal with more than one IM account active
> concurrently. 

I think this is a good goal, but it creates some incredibly tricky
UI/interaction problems.  I think an important first step is to allow
using more than one IM account _non_-concurrently.

Right now, Sugar provides no user interface for showing available accounts
and switching between them.  Getting such an interface would be very
useful.  I think it would provide 70% of the utility of concurrent
accounts, with only 25% of the effort.

Once we have account switching working (and maybe even released), then we
can try to figure out how to expose multiple simultaneous accounts.

--Ben

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