On Tuesday 10 February 2009 04:11:05 George Goldberg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Matt Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Monday 09 February 2009 12:41:55 George Goldberg wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >> 2) Decibel chooses the best way to open a channel to a contact. It
> >> selects the most appropriate of your accounts and buddy-list entries
> >> to get a channel of the requested type to that contact.
> >
> > Personally, I would expect the client to be able to do this rather than
> > Decibel doing it for the user. For example, we get a lot of requests in
> > Kopete to be able to choose what account to use for messaging, even
> > though we have heuristics to choose an appropriate contact. Once we have
> > feature parity across all the various protocols, this may not matter as
> > much though.
>
> imho thats pretty simple to fix. Decibel has its heuristic for
> choosing the account to use, but if the user sets a default way to
> text-chat with contact XXX or whatever, then Decibel will go with
> that. (These defaults could of course be set by the IM GUI, but would
> be effective globally whatever the IM application they use).
>
> --

As long as the app can override this, then that's fine. I would expect Decibel 
to figure this out automatically.
--
Matt

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