What would be so difficult about a migration path, then? That might be a naive question, but as far I can tell it's simply a question of a transparent implementation-based migration. We preserve the old interface and rewrite whats under the hood as XMPP
Once again, feel free to lambast me for my ignorance here... Alex > 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*> >
