[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> - 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?
>>
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> How do the Moblin guys deal with it? From my understanding their anerley
> library deals to some degree with the merging of multiple contact sources
> (e-d-s and multiple telepathy connections AFAICT) so it might be worth a
> look at.

Any idea where has moved the source? The url in the Source line in
your spec is invalid.

Thanks,

Tomeu

> Peter
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