Apologies for the hope-packed subject, I am not announcing any xchat backend :)
But I did start thinking about the backend. The log files are very similar to Konversation files, so the Konversation code can be easily adapted to make it an xchat backend. There are two problems, and major ones. xchat stores the timestamps in the log files in user-configurable way, using strftime format. Changing the strftime format to a .Net DateTime format is one obstacle. The second one is worse. The default format (and for any user that stores the timestamps in this way) only contains the time (no date). The Konversation backend and other IM backends rely on time-date to index the chat lines according to the timeline. One option is to refuse to index log files which dont mention the full date too ... but that will be too harse. The other option, ... don't know. Those are pretty much the problems with implementing an xchat backend right now. I know there is some demand for an xchat backend, so I thought to share with you my findings. Anyone is welcome to look into the issues. Either discuss here or at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487867 - dBera PS: In other news, svn trunk now has a backend for the IM client Empathy. It will be shipped soon with 0.3.2. -- ----------------------------------------------------- Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers