[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:07 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?
> >>
> >
> > 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.
>

They are currently mirgrating the source from the Moblin to Meego git repos
so its been taken down. Probably the quickest way to grab the source at the
moment is to use the src.rpm from Fedora rawhide as that is pretty recent.

Peter
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