Comment 9 for bug 290552

> Right now, I'm thinking the best situation would be:
> 1. FUSA doesn't control presence
> 2. Create a standard API for IM status
> 3. All IM applications implement the API
> 4. 1 panel applet for GNOME, 1 for KDE that changes status for all apps
> that use the standard API. And then that could have a "Buddy List
> Visible" checkbox in its right-click menu

> Would that be a good way to resolve keeping things out of the
> notification area that aren't notifications while adding cross-app
> consistency?

+1. IMHO, that's the best solution we can have by now. That way, we could have consistency without duplicity and without lack of features.

About the panel applet for all IM apps, it must have a right-menu option (or similar) to open the IM app main screen you selected.