Stop Gmail chat from automatically updating status?

Question

What really annoys me is that whenever I move the mouse to the gmail window to reply to email, my chat status becomes automatically available. Gmail does not provide the ability to disable this default behavior. So I want to write a greasemonkey script to disable this. Basically, I think to enable this only when my mouse moves to the chat frame or I am currently chatting. But I only have limited knowledge of javascript and gmail.

So will it be very difficult to do? or any hints on how this can be done?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Perhaps this helps to use the GTalk program instead of building GMail in the solution.

You can also access the GTalk protocol (Jabber) using any major messenger http://www.google.com/support/chat/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=24670

These instant messengers have the ability to control when switching from busy to available.