Leave a room?
Ian Beck
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How do I leave a room in Propane? There doesn't seem to be any way to explicitly do so, and closing the window doesn't remove me from a room (checked the lobby in my web browser and I was still listed as a participant).
This is problematic, because I need to know that people won't be uselessly pinging me in a room I'm not longer in.
In a semi-related issue, I'd really like to be able to see who is currently in a room on the main lobby screen. We have several rooms for our company for different parts of the company, but some people might be in one or the other. Right now, I can't see who is where, so I'd have to pop in and out of a bunch of different rooms to track them down.
Ian
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Support Staff 2 Posted by trevor on 08 Jan, 2009 08:52 PM
Hey,
WRT leaving a room: you caught me. I left that out because there was no point in putting in the effort if nobody ever asked for it. Your use-case is noted :-)
As for seeing participants in the lobby, the information is gathered but not presented right now because I need to do a little work on keeping that information 'fresh'.
Trev
3 Posted by Ian Beck on 08 Jan, 2009 10:22 PM
Chalk me up as one user who really wants to be able to leave rooms. :-)
With my coworkers, it's sometimes difficult to tell if the person is gone or just not responding (on the phone or whatever), so being able to leave is pretty important.
What I'd actually prefer would be for Campfire to introduce a simple status system so that I could mark myself as out to lunch (or have Propane mark me as idle if my computer hasn't seen activity in so many minutes, etc.). However, 37signals hasn't seen fit to add statuses so far, so for now I'm stuck with leaving.
Glad to hear that seeing participants is on the radar; certainly not a "must have or I can't use Propane" feature, but it would be nice.
Ian
4 Posted by david on 10 Jan, 2009 02:26 PM
+1 I like to make sure people know that I've actually left the room and am not available. I normally make a point of leaving the room when I'm getting some alone time to focus on a task.
5 Posted by Matthew Brindley on 10 Jan, 2009 03:24 PM
+1 from me too.
Ideally it'd leave the room for me if I closed the room window, that'd be perfect!
6 Posted by Ian Beck on 10 Jan, 2009 04:10 PM
I'm kind of on the fence about whether I'd like to have closing the tab/window remove me from the rooms, or whether I'd prefer a menu item to leave individual active rooms and then have the program automatically leave all of them if I quit.
On the one hand, if I need to take lunch I know that I'm going to be rejoining the room(s) that I have open, so needing to head back to the lobby is a little bit extra work (this is where a menu item would be nice). On the other, at this moment in time I'm rarely in more than one room at a time, so I wouldn't be adversely affected by simply closing the window; I can just anticipate possibly disliking it in the future. :-)
Ian
7 Posted by Coda Hale on 27 Jan, 2009 11:47 PM
+1 for leaving room when Propane closes or when the room window is closed
Just had a co-worker try to tell me something because he thought I was online when I'd closed the window 10 minutes previous.
8 Posted by mghaught on 29 Jan, 2009 04:49 PM
+1 I definitely need to be able to leave a room easily and let people know as soon as Propane is done with the room. It would also be nice to be able to leave all rooms but still be in propane in case I want to login to a different room later.
9 Posted by System on 30 Jan, 2009 05:35 PM
This discussion was assigned to Trevor Squires, on ticket 44.
Support Staff 10 Posted by trevor on 28 Feb, 2009 12:12 AM
Hey folks.
The first pass of this is done and released - check for updates.
Command-shift-L will leave the room.
Automatic leaving will take longer to finish because I want to catch power-management events and delay sleep mode for up to 15 seconds while I fire-off 'leave' events to Campfire.
Trev
11 Posted by Ian Beck on 28 Feb, 2009 12:19 AM
Huzzah! Thanks Trevor!
12 Posted by matt on 28 Feb, 2009 04:39 AM
Hey, excellent!
Great work :-)