Gmail Chat: possible to allow only one person?

[Eliezer Broder]

What's the best way to allow only one person to see you're online, but be invisible to everyone else?

[Ryan Morehart]

There isn't a way short of just IM'ing the person when you see them on.

Ryan

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Eliezer Broder <ebr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the best way to allow only one person to see you're online, but be
> invisible to everyone else?
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[slycherrie]

I think this would be a fabulous feature! The issue at the moment is
that I want to chat to my boyfriend but we're both invisible cos we
don't want randoms chatting us all day but we want to be able to see
when each other is online.

Also, it would be great if we could set one or more people to be
visible to.

How could we go about requesting this extension to the Invisible
function?

On Dec 5, 7:04 am, Ryan Morehart <moreh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There isn't a way short of just IM'ing the person when you see them on.
>
> Ryan
>

[rmacd]

2009/12/15 slycherrie <antheag...@gmail.com>:

> I think this would be a fabulous feature! The issue at the moment is
> that I want to chat to my boyfriend but we're both invisible cos we
> don't want randoms chatting us all day but we want to be able to see
> when each other is online.

The (obvious) flippant reply would be - why have them on there if you
don't wish to speak to them?

However the Jabber protocol (which GMail Chat) uses supports the
per-user invisibility options which you're trying to find.

Therefore, the best way to achieve what you're trying to get is for
one of you (yourself or the bf) to download and run a Jabber-compliant
client, which supports the per-user invisibility options and then one
of you could still use the web-based interface. I know it's a pain in
the ass, as one of you will require to have a freestanding client, but
it's probably quicker than requesting from Google something that'll
probably take the great Juggernaut in the Sky about 10 years to
implement.

-R

Ronald MacDonald : +44-7772-351655
ron...@rmacd.com : http://www.rmacd.com
4/1 Gillespie Crescent, Edinburgh EH10 4HT

[North Country Maturing Gardener]

I use Adium... But, it's for Mac users only. I have it sitting in the
corner of the computer screen. I can see who's on-line, but just chat
with the one person I'd like to communicate with at that moment.
Works for me.

On Dec 15, 4:33 pm, rmacd <ronky...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/12/15 slycherrie <antheagraup...@gmail.com>: