[Adium-devl] Setting XMPP Priorities

[Colin Barrett]

As things stand now, from a UI perspective, yes, that's where that  
should go.

However, that window has been getting awfully cluttered. We've talked  
about it before, and couldn't really decide on anything. This may  
force our hand though. We really do need to either put some kind of  
disclosure triangle, or move the advanced options into a drawer(?),  
or something. We may also need to re-think that window entirely.

Anyone have any bright ideas?

-Colin

On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As some of you watching the svn commits might have noticed, I'm
> currently working on improving the account setup view. The main
> remaining issue left is the UI for setting the priority of the
> presences.
>
> For those of you who don't know what it's about:
> The idea behind the priority is that XMPP allows connecting to the
> same account twice using different resources (you can treat them like
> locations, e.g. “at home”, “at work”, “on the road”). In order to
> decide which connection should be the “main” one, priorities are used.
> For example, you have a desktop Mac and a portable Mac, and both are
> running Adium. If you’re available on both, the portable Mac is set
> to have a priority of 0, and the desktop is set to have a priority of
> 1, so new messages arrive at the desktop. When the desktop is away
> "gone for the weekend", its priority is set to -5, which means that
> new messages arrive at the portable mac (since you’re on the road).
> When you set your away message on the desktop to "taking a leak", the
> priority stays at 1, so they still arrive at your desktop machine for
> you to look at them when you're back.
>
> The issue right now is that Adium doesn't allow me to add that
> setting to the custom status window, where it belongs (since it's a
> property of the status, not the account). In my book, the proper
> solution would be to add an option for plugins to add controls there.
> I've filed this request as #4914.
> However, my mentor told me that I might meet resistance in the Adium
> developer team about this. Please keep in mind that my Summer of Code
> project is about no longer just supporting the least common
> denominator part of XMPP (everything that AIM also supports), but to
> have a full-blown implementation that isn't artificially limited.
> I haven't found a solution that doesn't involve changing the custom
> status window yet. Do you have any comments on this issue?
>
> andy
>
>
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