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

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Dec 08, 2006, at 05:25, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

> 	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

You can add non-gmail contacts to the buddy list, since gmail  
supports s2s (for instance, talking between gmail and my XMPP server  
works fine). For that, you just add my XMPP account andy at monitzer.com  
to your roster.
The only thing the plugin could do is to add @<own domain> to the JID  
when there's no @ in the name, but that would work for any XMPP  
server (for instance, if I'd try to add "steve" to my roster, it'd  
change it to "steve at monitzer.com").

> (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?)

You can talk to non-.mac-users from a .mac-account, so how would you  
tell the difference? On AIM, there's no mandatory @ in the screenname.

andy