[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

[Peter Robinson]

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.

Peter
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