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A nice feature from KDE 3.5.x was the tight integration between KMail and Kopete regarding the availability status of your contacts. Where you were replying to a mail sent by a contact that was available for chat, a small kopete icon was visible on the side of the mail. Now, it's gone. Could it be reintroduced ?

Akonadi, anyone?

Sounds more like Telepathy....

Most likely a combination of several technologies.

The feature in KDE3 was heavly depending on the IM client to match IM contact with addressbook contacts.

So the IM client (e.g. Kopete, Licq) was being used as the source for presence data as well as the source for merged contacts.

A new system would quite likely use Telepathy to provide IM contacts and presence, Akonadi would provide "normal" contacts and potentially Nepomuk to provide the "this two contacts are actually about the same person" knowledge.

This feature is great because you can see someone just became available and then chat to them instead of sending email

A lot of us use neither Nepomuk nor Akonadi. It would certainly not be ideal if this functionality was implemented using *both*.

An alternative option is, before sending an email, check Kopete to see if the contact is online. Or is that ridiculous?

If your sending a lot of e-mails during the day it does become quite ridiculous.

Submitted: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240865