[Adium-devl] Jabber-compatible services (was: Re: Some disclosure and some ideas.)

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Top posting here because I don't exactly know where to insert my 
question, rather than comment (also posting it to this list 'cause I'm 
not too sure if it's a bug or just a particular rationale in the Adium 
source, and I don't want to clutter trac unnecessarily --please excuse 
me if this is inappropriate).

	Every time I add a GTalk contact I get an entry for 
<contact>@gmail.com and <contact>@talk.google.com in my buddy list. I 
know the latter has something to do with the Google jabber server ID 
(or something to that effect, so I heard... /me the jabber ignorant 
ponders), but do we really need to have that? It's not clear if I can 
remove such "contact" from my buddy list or if doing so will break 
something. It's also not clear if I need to use the "@gmail.com" 
qualifier to add a GTalk contact when I've already selected the 
appropriate contact type in the "Add contact" panel (actually, this 
last point also applies to, for instance, .Mac contacts: do I need to 
use the @mac.com part to properly add a .Mac contact after properly 
selecting the corresponding type? If I'm not mistaken, code to properly 
handle an unnecessary @mac.com qualifier was added to Adium in a recent 
commit, but is that the case for GTalk too? How about other account 
types?)

	Regards,...


-jmpp

PS: Just say the word if you, the powers that be, would like me to file 
a ticket for this issue ;-)

On Dec 7, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:45:53, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> *nod* but I'd like to discontinue the trend of making 
>> $J_RANDOM_JABBER account types (see LiveJournal account types. 
>> Honestly, I'm starting to wonder about the legitimacy of having a 
>> separate GTalk account type. Maybe creating a Jabber account could 
>> support having a pop up menu of already-known services?)
>
> Nobody will look in that Jabber submenu for GTalk or LJ, though. They 
> know that they have a GTalk or LJ account, but not necessarily that 
> it's really Jabber.
>
> We could stand to organize it more. I envision sections, with a 
> boldface heading for each. Something like:
>
> ---
> AIM-compatible ←Bold
> AIM
> .Mac
> ICQ
> -
> Jabber-compatible ←Bold
> Google Talk
> LiveJournal
> Jabber
> -
> MSN Live-compatible ←Bold
> MSN
> Yahoo!
> -
> Region-specific ←Bold
> Gadu-Gadu
> QQ
> Yahoo! Japan ←(Does anyone know whether this is MSN-compatible too?)
> -
> Other ←Bold
> Lotus Sametime
> Trepia
> etc.
> ---
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