auto away when no frontend client is connected

[gdamjan]

lounge should set the status to 'away' when there's no client connected on the front-side.

[vectr0n]

+1

[MaxLeiter]

👍 should be a setting imo

[raqbit]

+∞

[richrd]

Very neat idea! Would it be possible to also show who is away in the nick list? Would be very useful.
Apparently it could be achieved with this http://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/away-notify-3.1.html

[xPaw]

This should be straight forward to implement:

• on socketio close -> no more clients? -> send away to all connected irc networks
• on irc connected -> no socketio clients -> send away to connected irc network
• on socketio opened -> remove away on all irc networks

This might conflict with users' /away, if they do it.

Am I missing anything? What should the away message be?

[dgw]

Something like "Auto away at <timestamp>", is how ZNC does it.

I'm with @MaxLeiter: This should be a setting, as I already have my ZNC do this and often use a desktop client instead of keeping The Lounge open.

[xPaw]

Setting is tricky because we don't have client-sends-settings-to-server.

[dgw]

Then maybe that should be a blocker for this being implemented. I'd probably have to discontinue using The Lounge if there was no way to prevent it from setting me as away just because I don't have it open in a browser tab somewhere. And that would be very sad, because I know of no comparable replacement.

[maxpoulin64]

Maybe it would be time to get a better settings system going so this is no longer an issue. "We'd need a setting but we can't" seems to be something that comes back fairly often. It would be sad to postpone this one given how simple it would be.

I'll try to see if I can make something in the weekend for the settings, both server-side and client-side.

[dgw]

I see @maxpoulin64 has made good on that in #275. 👍

[maxpoulin64]

Slight comment as one pointed out on IRC: I had made this branch a while ago: https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/tree/patches/auto-away

It's a quick and dirty fix, but it does add the minimum of support some people need. We're still waiting for a better handling of network preferences and all before this goes into a real PR.

[AlMcKinlay]

Alrighty, this should be fixed by #775, in master and should be in the next release (2.3.0).