User can click online buddy but it will not open a Chat Window until the first Poller receive request

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.30 EE GA3, 6.2.0 CE M3
• Component/s: Chat, Polls, ~ [Archived] Collaboration
• Labels: None
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-plugins/pull/1212

Chat Portlet has been deployed.

Foo is any user.
Bar is any user.
Foo and Bar are buddies && are both logged in.
Foo tries to open a new chat with Bar by clicking on his Name in the Chat Portlet buddy panel immediately after refreshing a page.
Foo is unable to open a chat window until Liferay has received at least one Poller request containing his buddy list.

This is not exactly a bug, however we can improve the user experience. If you go to that (in)famous site created by Mark Z. and refresh the page, it takes a few moments for you to be able to chat with your friends. This is because the front end needs to first to receive a response from the backend on who is actually available for chat.

The "fix" for this ticket will be improving the UX by adding a loading indicator on the page load if the Online Friends Panel is "selected" and adding a grey-ed out style to the list of online buddies until the initial response event has finished.