[yuranlu]

The SmartStatus is actually fully configurable, so you can choose which applications/websites you appear red/yellow/green for. So if you set Hacker News and your IDE to the same color, then your coworkers won't be able to tell :-)

[maayank]

Ah, thank you! For some reason, reading "Fully Customizable" on the site I didn't understand it as such. Is it possible to set (until chosen otherwise) uniformly to red/yellow/green? As in, to override the SmartStatus and use it as run of the mill IM applications without losing the settings?

[yuranlu]

Right now, you can manually set your status to either Online or Unavailable. If you're unavailable, then people can't initiate video connections with you, and your status is gray. If you set your status to Online, then people can chat you and your colored status is determined by which application/website you have in the foreground. The application/website to color mapping is something you can configure yourself, but right now it's not possible to force yourself to a particular color for a period of time, although that's a great idea that we can implement in a coming release.