[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 19:43, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Avoiding the problem is of course a possible course, if we cannot find
anything better in a reasonable timeframe.

But if someone has good ideas about how to expose contacts from
mutiple accounts, here is the thread.

Thanks,

Tomeu