[Psi-devel] PyMSNt integration

[James Bunton]

On 29/05/2005, at 7:24 PM, Norman Rasmussen wrote:

>> 1) Are you interested in coming up with a protocol to notify about
>> nickname changes?
>
> The constant changing of everyone's MSN nickname was basically to
> provide status information.  With the new version of MSN, and support
> for this in PyMSNt - I doubt that nicknames will change nearly as
> often as they used to.
>
>> 2) Some MSN users have pretty long nicknames. At the moment there's no
>> way to view them from the vCard dialog except scrolling by clicking &
>> dragging, or select all & copy/paste somewhere else. It'd be nice to
>> fix this for 0.10. I don't know how though, perhaps in the status
>> message?
>
> see above.
hehe.. Yeah, I'd initially hoped that too.
Unfortunately some users still use the older MSN clients, although that 
will likely improve over time. But, I've also noticed many people seem 
to use both the nickname and the personal message as a status. So they 
have two statuses :|
I know it's an abuse of the idea behind it, but I still think there 
should be an easier way to view these. Even just making the line edit a 
little longer would fix it (only 127 char max for MSN nicks).





>> 3) Could we make the dialog to change nickname a little easier to
>> access? At the moment it takes
>> Psi Menu->Accounts->james->Modify->Details->Edit Personal Details.
>> I can't think of a brilliant place to put it, but that's a little out
>> of the way. I doubt many people would ever find it
>
> What about adding a User Info to the account menu, like the self
> contact menu has.  That way you don't force people to display self
> contact, or go via the deep menus.
Yeah, that'd be good.


>
>> 4) I'll be supporting the iChat avatar spec in PyMSNt. It seems to 
>> most
>> sensible protocol at the moment. JEP-0008 is wasteful (sending avatar
>> to every user, rather than the server sending it), and JEP-0084 has
>> it's own problems (don't know who I'm subscribed to already, lack of
>> pubsub support in most clients). Will Psi also support this for 0.10? 
>> I
>> know most of the work is done already.
> Jabberd2 does not support the storage of 'misformed' vcard's.  It will
> only store what's in the spec.  Hence photo data is lost.


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James