I think you didn't search the list. http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2010-February/007253.html
<http://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2010-February/007253.html>Read that first, then see what it doesn't answer. I think the thread answers all of your statements here. Chris On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Alexander Golec < [email protected]> wrote: > Well I've set facebook up as a jabber account, and a few things come to > mind. For starters, there is now literally no indication of idleness. In > addition, I don't think there is any point in showing the jabber address of > each account in the mouseover. It has no identifying information, and just > breaks the nice layout of the box. > > Perhaps we can drop the old facebook chat plugin in favor of this jabber > implementation? For starters, it would do away with the major downside to > the old plugin, namely that it logs you out of the web client by mimicking > the web client interface. > > We would have to make it a little more streamlined, in that not everyone > has a facebook user name. In fact, I didn't until I installed this, and it > kind of bugs me that I'm going to appear in google now. We can always > perform a lookup somehow. The facebook plugin presumably had to do this, so > we just need to package a jabber plugin and call it a facebook plugin. > > Alex > > Didn't facebook release an xmpp protocol recently? If so, that'd be what I'd > look at first to see if that protocol indicates idle just with a generic > xmpp account. If it does, it's implementing that as an account type as the > path to take. > > At least that's my take on it. > > Chris > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alexander Golec < > alexgolecmailinglists at gmail.com > <http://adium.im/mailman/listinfo/devel_adium.im>> wrote: > > >* Hey all,*>**>* I've noticed that the facebook chat plugin gives no > >indication of*>* when users are idle, unless they are 1. listed as available > >and 2. actually*>* idle. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to divine > >idleness time like*>* there is in aim, there is also no time next to their > >name. The result is*>* that there is no way to tell if someone is idle > >except to mouse over their*>* name.*>**>* I'd like to fix this, and > >I'm like to know where to start. I assume*>* there is some place where > >global status is determined, and if there is, I'd*>* like to interface it > >better with the facebook plugin.*>**>* If there are other protocols > >where this is an issue, I think this*>* idea could make them work a little > >better as well.*>**>* Alex*> > > >
