[Psi-devel] JEP-0038

[Justin Karneges]

Welcome. ;-)

On Saturday 16 October 2004 03:10 pm, Sebastiaan Deckers wrote:
> Which JISP format does Psi support?  The one in the jabber.org version
> of the JEP?  The ones that came with RhymBox 1.6?  The ones from Pandion
> 2.0 <http://emoticons.pandion.be/>?  The one tha was discussed in the
> wiki at theoretic.com?  Anything else?

Misha will have to answer this, but I think it's the one from the JEP with the 
addition of roster iconsets (via an extension).  However, the way it is done 
is really bad, IMO.  We should probably redraft JEP-38 with better 
consideration for roster icons if we really want to go there, or we should 
retract our extension and pursue an independent roster iconset format.

> There was some talk on jdev/standard-jig to allow animated SVG or Flash
> emoticons.  I don't like that idea.  Is this something Psi needs to
> support/allow?

I've always thought SVG was a good idea for anything, so I have no problem 
with allowing them in jisps.  Flash sounds like overkill...

> There is a misconception that JEP-38 was also trying to define a set of
> "required" emoticon strings.  That's the last thing I want, because then
> we can't convert any the existing emoticons (from forums, other IM
> clients, etc.) to JISPs when they miss certain icons.  I think this is
> what Nolan was talking about earlier.

Agreed.

> Does anyone think the jisp:x:jep-0038 namespace should be documented or
> is this purely an implementation thing?  It would be cool if Psi
> supported it also.  Anyone willing to work on that?

A way of doing this is a good idea I think.  However, I'm not sure I like this 
particular method.  It seems like a better approach would be to use JEP-0096 
to transfer the set between contacts, and maybe use a hash identification to 
avoid naming conflicts.

-Justin