[Adium-devl] Status event wackiness

[Evan Schoenberg]

Well, you're using the AIContentStatus's sending in order to log the  
event... I'm pretty sure that's not the right level of granularity.   
That's a content object, posted for display to a message view in  
response to a particular status notification... but part of the fun  
of XML is recording things in a lossless way. We don't want to record  
the message "Evan went away" or "Evan is not idle" -- what we want to  
log, as I see it anyways, is the fact that AIM.tekjew had a status  
event of CONTACT_STATUS_AWAY_YES or CONTACT_STATUS_IDLE_YES. No?  I  
think our "internal notification system sucks" because you're not  
using the right part of it.

That said, the current system is perhaps not quite geared for what  
you want in that it automagically consolidates status changes to make  
sense at a metacontact level. CONTACT_STATUS_AWAY_YES is not going to  
be posted if you have me on AIM and MSN, I'm already away on MSN, and  
I go away on AIM.  Everything about the notification system... at  
present anyways... says that's redundant information -- no growl  
notification, no sound, etc.  In the general case, I think this is  
what should be... because generally people on with multiple services  
or names go away or idle on all of them at once, and we wouldn't want  
to display a string of notifications all related to the metacontact  
Colin, each of which was referring to a different name/service.  
Thoughts?

-Evan

On Jun 8, 2006, at 12:21 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> Recently, while working on XML logging, I ran into a really lame
> issue/bug. Here's the relevant work around for XML logging, and a
> ticket which describes some wackiness in the message view which I
> believe to be related.
>
> http://trac.adiumx.com/changeset/16183 and http://trac.adiumx.com/
> ticket/4226
>
> To summarize, I'm of the opinion that our internal notification
> system sucks. A lot. Going forward, it's going to make implementing
> logging, especially the <event> tag, a pain in the ass. What should
> we do, if anything, to improve it? Augie suggested a central
> NotificationCenter for listObject status notifications. I think it
> would be nice to have categories of events. You could subscribe to
> that entire category and get all of the notifications in that  
> category.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> -Colin
>
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