[Adium-devl] Watching a first time Adium user for 5 minutes

[Sean Egan]

On 1/26/07, Evan Schoenberg <evan at adiumx.com> wrote:
> Ah hah!  Which explains why Gaim / Adium do, as well, but without any sort
> of choosing-of-contacts, much to the dismay of users -- Adium users,
> anyways.   The following patch, which takes non-subscribed users off the
> local list when the roster is processed, is currently in use in Adium's
> libgaim because we had approximately 100 bug reports after the Talk roster
> changes saying "I'm showing up on my buddy list!  All these email addresses
> I can't IM are on my list!  My whole address book is
> there!!!1111oneonebinary7"

I think this is actually a Google Talk server bug. There's an
attribute (include='all') you have to set when requesting the roster
if you want to get the entire address book. There's another attribute
(ext='2') you set when you just want Google Talk specific information
about your normal IM buddies. I started setting the latter attribute,
but once in a while (I can't repro it on demand), it seems the servers
are sending back the entire address book as if I'm setting
include='all'.

I'll let you know when I have this solved.