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

[Andre-John Mas]

On 8-Dec-06, at 09:21 , Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> 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").

A few things to take into account:

   - Gmail I believe supports non-gmail domains. Google added this
     to allow companies to use the Gmail server for their uses. A
     link on this:

     http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/83499/gmail-goes-the-company-domain- 
way.html

   - MSN already supports, by way of MSN passport, identities that  
include
     other domain names. A mention this since in this case there is no
     real domain attachment.

Having mentioned all that, it could be useful to allow a default domain
name to be attached, if the domain is not provided, but this is only
useful for Jabber based solution, since in 95% of Jabber cases the
Jabber server will be in the same domain as the account using it.
Why am I mentioning all this? I reckon its just that I want to
be sure that the usage is consistent with the other IM serices. If
we can avoid tpo much special-casing then it would be best.

Andre