[Adium-devl] Metacontact Plans for Adium 1.1

Peter Hosey prh at boredzo.org
Fri Sep 29 03:37:20 UTC 2006


On Sep 28, 2006, at 18:25:56, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> We proposed a hierarchy, where every physical person gets assigned  
> an "AIContact" object. This contact has a GUID, a name, an icon,  
> etc (basically everything the contact list displays). It does *not*  
> have a status. Additionally, it contains a list of "AIAddress"  
> objects [we welcome any suggestions for a better naming scheme ;)].  
> An AIAddress object is associated with a specific screen name on  
> AIM, UIN on ICQ, JID w/ resource on XMPP, etc, and contains a status.

I suggest “AIContactInfo”.

I do think that this system is cleaner than the current one, with all  
of its “isKindOfClass:AIMetaContact” cruft. I look forward to it.
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