[Gossip-dev] [PATCH] GossipContact should emit himself property notifications and updated signal

[Mikael Hallendal]

13 dec 2006 kl. 14.49 skrev Xavier Claessens:

Hi,

> On sam, 2006-12-09 at 13:26 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I made a big patch [1]. Comments are welcomed. I think it needs  
>> testing
>> to be sure to not have regressions, it's why I post on the ML.
>>
>> So please test the patch and tell me if contact's information are  
>> always
>> updated everywhere on the UI.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Xavier Claessens.
>
> While we are working on GossipContact, is there a real need of
> GossipChatroomContact ? The information it adds are very jabber- 
> specific
> and is useless on a IRC,MSN,etc chatroom.

The information is quite relevant for IRC (not affiliation but role)  
and as far as I know MSN doesn't have chatrooms but only group chats?

> I think chatrooms should accept to have GossipContact objects in his
> member list. I don't really know how to make it the best, maybe  
> role and
> affiliation should be in an interface of GossipContact ?

Would make all that much of a difference though and we might want to  
handle group chats differently from chat rooms anyway (ie. they are a  
very stripped down version of chat rooms).

// Micke

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