Provide an 'away' status for connected-but-inactive contacts

[special]

A user suggests that it would be helpful to be able to set an 'away' status, so contacts would know when they shouldn't expect a response despite being connected. This could be set manually, or through some measurement of activity, but the latter would have some privacy implications.

[gabedwrds]

I wonder if we're going to end up having a panel of options that are nice-to-have but weaken privacy. Automatic away status, typing indicator, etc.

Personally, while I would like to see when there's no point trying to reach a contact (because they're AFK), I'm never-ever going to actually bother setting an away status manually. It would have to be automatic to be useful.

Also, there should be a link between this and #211.

[rburchell]

I don't think anything that weakens privacy should be on by default, for sure. And I think that the tradeoffs for enabling any such options should be made as clear as possible before actually allowing it.

I agree with what you say about away status other than that.

[special]

Hmm. I think I would use a manual away status to indicate that I don't intend to respond to people, even though my ricochet client is connected. This happens fairly frequently.

I agree regarding the automatic option.