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On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Loren Finkelstein wrote:
> Clustering is really cool. My friend, Jason has 2 Yahoo, 1 AIM & 1 MSN
> account, and now he only shows up once in my buddy list.
>
> I have AIM set as the first one in the list in clustering, since it's
> really
> my primary chat protocol.
>
> Anyway, I went to send a file to Jason and got the following message...
>
>> The selected buddy's service (AIM) does not support sending files in
>> Fire.app.
>
> I had to uncluster, then select his Yahoo account. Is there a better
> way?
>
> Maybe a drop down arrow for clustered buddies? Or maybe the "Send File
> To
> Buddy" option could traverse a clustered buddy's cluster looking for a
> compatible one?
>
> Or maybe I could just make Yahoo primary in the cluster. :-)
>
> I was just wondering.
>
> Thoughts?
There are a few approaches to this issue. Colter felt that it was best
to keep the buddy clustering simple which is our current strategy. If
you need access to a non-primary buddy in a cluster you have to use the
"All" view... middle of the three state view toolbar item.
I had thought of having another level of hierarchy in the past, however
our current implementation using the table view instead of outline view
makes this harder.
Longer term, the real fix is to get file transfer working on as many
services as possible. Please do not take this statement as a promise
that we will do file transfer for any particular service, just that our
time is better spent working on that issue rather than redoing buddy
clustering for example.
-Jason
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