[drats_users] Status

[Francis Miele]

Interesting. It looked like it was designed to work that way, Where is this
new changeset?

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On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:

> > thats the way it is designed. its not a bug. just because a station sets
> > the status to offline doesn't mean they are actually offline. I means
> > the person is not necessarily at the computer. If they were offline you
> > wouldn't see them listed.
>
> Actually, that's not what I intended.  This is actually an oversight
> that came in when I was working to fix an Italian translation issue.
> The other two states are used internally, but accidentally got exposed
> via the drop-down as part of that fix.  And, in fact, you don't
> disappear from the list when you go offline, you just transition to the
> Offline state.  The only time a station gets removed from the list is
> if/when the user clears the list or explicitly removes a specific station.
>
> If you set your status to Offline, but then your station continues to
> respond to pings (and so forth) I think that would be confusing.  Also,
> setting status to "Unknown" doesn't really make much sense, IMHO :)
>
> Fixed in changeset:1932.  Thanks :)
>
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