[Gossip-dev] Bug #368794

[Aurelien Naldi]

Le samedi 11 novembre 2006 à 11:26 +0100, Xavier Claessens a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to fix bug #368794 [1]. The problem seems to be in
> gossip_session_find_account_for_own_contact() which compares accounts ID
> to know if 2 accounts are the same.
> 
> I'm connecting both MSN and jabber accounrs using the same ID
> ("xclaesse at gmail.com") using telepathy and so gossip gets confused and
> doesn't return the good account.
> 
> The problem is also in gossip_contact_equal() because it compares with
> ID to tell if 2 accounts are the same.
> 
> Why not simply compare pointers ?
> 
> GossipAccount *a1;
> GossipAccount *a2;
> (...)
> if (a1 == a2) {...}
> 
> I guess it's to only show one contact if I connect more than one account
> that have same contacts in their list ? Using telepathy this isn't a
> good solution because I can have the same ID for one contact but using
> different protocols ! If I add "someone at gmail.com" in my MSN and jabber
> list I want to see both and choose myself which protocol I want to use
> to talk with him.
> 
> To solve the duplicate of contacts Gaim groups them, it's by far more
> flexible but maybe more difficult to implement... Should be great to
> make something like gaim does...
> 
> Comments are welcome,
> Xavier Claessens.

This reminds me of an other bug I reported and tryed to fix a while ago,
I think it has been closed since (and I do not have a pointer here) but
after testing it is still here: if two gossip account have the same
contact, gossip can not distinguish them.

* open gossip and connect account A and B, both of them have C as
contact.
* C talks to A, gossip correctly responds using account A
* C talks to B, gossip put everything in the same chat window and
answers using account A again.

while this could be a nice feature, it is annoying in some cases,
especially as there is no way to tell gossip which account should be
used first.

I would really love to see these things fixed, contact grouping seems to
be the right way, but I cannot help, except by testing as I do not have
much hacking time :/

On a related note, some kind of evolution integration would also be
nice, evolution already allows several IM adress per contact.

-- 
Aurelien