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Presence, contacts and different apps..

So, I installed Skype, the free-as-in-beer web phone software (which now has a beta for OSX btw) and I have had some fun with Jimmac - it is nice to be able to just chat about work and stuff instead of typing it on irc.

But this all has made me think about integration again. Let's see. I have my mail addressbook in Evolution, I have a buddy list in Gaim, my friends are also on IRC and people are writing blogs and appearing on Planet Gnome as well. Some people are also in my Gnomemeeting list. Keeping track of all this - without doing it as a full-time job - is not easy. There's just too much information and it is split between different applications..

The Evolution addressbook now has fields for messaging client screen names etc, and there was work going on to make Gaim sync with that which is great. But now, for example, Skype just has its own list of contacts.

Maybe there is a standard being drafted for all this - if someone knows, let me know.

When Jimmac becomes online, I wish I got[i] one notification bubble[/i] for it, which gives me a list of applications that I can use to contact him. Not popups and small funny sounds from Gaim, Skype, Evo, XChat, Gnomemeeting and whatever else I might be running. And I also wish to have [i]just one control to set myself "busy"[/i] - nobody wants to do it on each of the apps separately..