2009/1/22 Olivier Goffart <ogoff...@kde.org>: > Why do we need to send icons URL for status? I think it will just confuse the > user if each cotact has different icons for different statuses. > > I see also that as a potential security issue that can reveal user's presence > + IP (while following the links) >
I agree. IMO there is no reason, why should one client tell another how to display it's states. I would certainly not implement (or enable in client supporting this) such behavior. Noted security issue is also a problem. On the other hand, if some client really used it, it would have no way of knowing, whether cached images are up-to-date. Other thing: every client can have different sizes of icons. I imagine one could solve this by offering big images for client to scale down. Now we can download 50+ (probably more) 128x128px images every startup. So.. I think it is nice reinterpretation of XEP-92, but these icons are way too useless.
