Sharing - Buddylist
So we need a common buddy list where one can add contacts from addressbook, from beagle searches and from IM messages etc.
It would be cool if the buddy list could also have an “vfolder” which showed the people you interact with more often
Ideally it would sit on the edge of your screen, maybe it could have an auto-hide feature where it would appear when the mouse is moved to the side of the screen where the list resides. Or it could be a Microsoft Longhorn-like sidebar.
Contacts becoming online and offline could show up as “notifications” (see
http://galago.sf.net) - or even as nice white translucent “on screen display” notes on the corner of the screen - those wouldnt steal focus either and would just appear, play a short pleasant notify sound wave and would fade out over the course of maybe 10 seconds or so.