[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 19:39, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Sure it's not a telepathy problem, it's a problem of our intended user
experience.

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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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