[Psi-Devel] Feature request: Handling of im: URIs

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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Jan Vornberger wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> Since there seems to be a rather short development phase planned for
> 0.12 I'd like to express my hopes that maybe the handling of im: URIs
> might make it into that release.

Currently it seems not very likely. the darcs->svn switch is slowing me
down a lot and some of the harder problems for the xmpp-uri handling have
no code at all yet. Maybe ipc+single instance will be ready for 0.12 but
xmpp uri handling would be quite some work still.

> 
> I believe that permanent, irc-like group chats are one of the killer
> features of Jabber that set it a side from other instant messaging
> networks. IRC is a nice thing, but we all now, that it's mostly for
> geeks. I think, that Jabber has the potential to bring IRC goodness to
> the mere mortal. :-) That's why I would regard the handling of im: URIs
> as an important feature to have.

Yes, opening MUCs via alink from some community website would be a very
nice thing. Disclosing the xmpp identity by clicking a random link on some
site would be a disaster, though.

> 
> I remember discussing this briefly on the Psi Groupchat a while ago and
> one of the devs mentioning, that he has already some code for that
> sitting in his development branch. So here is hoping, that this code
> might make it into 0.12! :-)
> 

I'll try to find my timemachine, but i think it burned out for good last
time i tried to use it ;)

 - Martin