[Adium-devl] Including contacts as 'offline' for offline but enabled accounts

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 10, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>
>>> I'd be -1 on (2) because then a never-connected account and a once-
>>> connected-but-now-offline account would behave differently, even for
>>> the same service/UID, which seems wrong to me. The 1.2.3 behavior,
>>> while not necessarily liked by all users, seems like the most
>>> consistent behavior possible.
>>
>> I'm not sure why I proposed and am defending (2), but the problem you
>> describe would not be the case.  From launch time onward, the  
>> contacts
>> would be visible with Show Offline Contacts for all services which
>> matter for this, as we get the information from libpurple (and
>> currently actively ignore it).
>
> Before an account has connected? EG, if I have an AIM account that is
> disabled, the buddies would still manage to be in the contact list?

Disabled? No.  Enabled but has not connected? Yes.  The libpurple  
blist.xml, which is parsed in its entirety and sent to us in the form  
of 'buddy added', 'buddy alias changed', etc. messages when libpurple  
first loads, includes all previously known information about the  
serverside lists, broken down by account.

-Evan