[Adium-devl] Adding intelligence to 'Gmail account'

[Colin Barrett]

I think, in this case, we want to keep the UI as simple as possible.  
Perhaps a generalized "locations" feature, similar to (and/or tied in  
with) the one in the OS? I don't know what the API for that is like,  
if any.

-Colin

On Oct 31, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Andre-John Mas wrote:

> Two approaches I can think of:
>
>    - primary configuration with fallback
>    - rule based system
>
> The first of the two would be easier to implement, while the second
> could potentially add more flexibility. Question is how much  
> flexibility
> do we really need?
>
> Andre
>
> On 31-Oct-06, at 14:39 , Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>> Could this work with other Jabber accounts as well? From my
>> understanding of the way Jabber servers work, this would work with
>> some but not all. Perhaps then a checkbox to "Try old style SSL as
>> well"?
>>
>> -Colin
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
>>
>>> Anything that makes life easier while being transparent to the user
>>> would definitely be cool Andre. Let us know when you have a patch  
>>> for
>>> this and we'll have someone take a look :)
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Oct 31, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Since we have a special 'Google Talk' account, I am wondering
>>>> whether
>>>> it would be an idea
>>>> to add some extra features to make it easier for users behind
>>>> firewalls:
>>>>
>>>> Currently the official client will attempt to connect on the
>>>> standard
>>>> Jabber port 5223, but if
>>>> it fails then is assumes the possibility that it could be behind a
>>>> firewall. In this case it will then
>>>> try to connect to port 443, with 'old style SSL'. I have set this  
>>>> up
>>>> manually for my work
>>>> environment, but is would be great to see that done invisibly for
>>>> the
>>>> user.
>>>>
>>>> Andre
>>>
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