[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

[David Van Assche]

Problem 2 doesn't seem to be a problem of telepathy, as it can handle
concurrent connections just fine. It would be nice if Sugar could do the
same. This would mean problem 1 stops being important. If there is some
limitation within sugar that forces it to use just one connection, a
dialogue asking for a changeover to the other protocol seems like the only
thing I can think of.

kind regards,
David Van Assche

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> as part of the effort to make Sugar a more "normal" Telepathy client,
> Sugar should become able to deal with more than one IM account active
> concurrently. Up to now, Sugar's Presence Service will enable the
> Avahi-based one, then disable it if a connection to a Jabber server
> was successful. This will make easier for Sugar users to be able to
> interact with people using GNOME or other desktops.
>
> This raises two problems:
>
> - the same people could appear 2 times. We can fix it up to some point
> by announcing our JID in Avahi, then merging contacts in the UI layer.
>
> - we cannot invite a link-local contact to an activity being shared
> through a jabber server, nor a jabber contact to an activity shared
> through another server (without federation).
>
> The first is not such a big deal, but the second will require careful
> thought about how we expose this limitation to users. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
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