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

[David Smith]

	One minor clarification, I'm pretty sure I didn't use the word  
"simple". ;)

On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Eion Robb wrote:

> 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
>
>
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