Will Skype EVER allow me to decide who see's me on...

I don't hold up much hope, and if the recent UI abomination is an example of Skype listening to it's users the chances are practically zero. I work online, I'm a 3d product visualization artist, clients are needy and painful with bleating and constant requests, there are times I want to be on Skype chatting to friends and I want to be able to select who see's me online at any one time. The only option I have is to remain permanently invisible, which seems rude when chatting to friends. From what I can find out, this has been requested (and ignored) for years, I'm sure at one time you were able to use 3rd party chat clients such as Pidgin to drive the Skype system and be able to have different "online status" for certain contacts. And as far as I can find out Skype have blocked this ability. So rather than wait for this feature to be added to Skype, or join the black hole of Skype development, does anyone have any solution or 3rd party workaround to this ? ...and in case I missed it in my haste to uninstall it, is this feature available in 7.0 ? tia

Yes, your contacts is getting your status information from the servers (catalog ones) not your client. Offcourse you can be online/offline to everyone, thats the point. In your suggestion, the servers must keep track of each status entry you choose for each contact you have, which is somewhat diffrent from how it works now.
Another fun effect of your suggestion is, if you have two contacts that know each other, you choose to be offline (or accidentaly sets it) to Bob and online to Paul. Bob asks Paul if he knows whats going on with you, he's not seen you online for weeks. Bob replies that, yes he's online right now, I just talked to him 5 minutes ago. Now this could be a problem
Even worse if the above is in a corporate situation.

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