[Psi-devel] PyMSNt integration

[Bart van Bragt]

James Bunton wrote:
> 1) Are you interested in coming up with a protocol to notify about 
> nickname changes?
Not really. I rename my contacts to a name that suits me and those names 
stay that way, no matter what the person does in his/her vCard or 
wherever. I mostly use firstnames and not silly nicknames :)

> 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?
I only view 'nicknames' of MSN folks in status messages so fixing the 
vCard doesn't really have priority for me.

> 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
I might change my nickname once every 20 years so I'm not really 
bothered by this :)

> 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.
I don't really like the way that iChat handles Avatars although there 
really isn't a much better alternative at the moment. But I don't have 
anything to say about what is and what isn't going to be in 0.10 :)


> With regards to 1) I was thinking just putting a nickname tag in the 
> <presence/> packet would do. Although I know a lot of people think this 
> is evil :)
It's evil indeed :)

Bart