[Adium-devl] Merging Chat's and IM's

[Eion Robb]

Hi all,

I've just been having a chat with Catfish_Man on irc about how some
protocols (MSN, Skype) implement chat's and im's as just one message type
and not split into two, which is how libpurple dishes it out.  I'm keen on
working a little on Adium to try and make either some kind of hybrid
chat/im message window, or make Adium transition between chats and im's.

The thing I'm not sure about, is whether this can be done just at the
Adium client level, or whether it needs to be in the libpurple side of
things too.  I was thinking along the lines of creating a hybrid chat/im
conversation struct in libpurple, but Catfish_Man suggested, that it could
just be as simple as "just make it so that when [[chat
participatingListObjects] count] > 2, it shows the groupchat UI".

I was just wanting to get other people's opinions on the best way to go
about this.

Cheers,
Eion