Re: [Gaim-devel] [PATCH] don't allow duplicate away message titles

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

the best way to handle that would be to use the request api to tell the
user that [s]he can no longer use the same name multiple times and
request a new name, probly with a button to force the overwrite as well,
but i'd bet the default choice would be to rename the new one.

luke


On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:59:06PM -0500, Jon Oberheide wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 20:53, Mark Doliner wrote:
> > A few things:
> > -This can't be commited right now because we're in a string freeze and you add
> > a string
> 
> Understandable.
> 
> > -I don't see any real reason to force away message titles to be unique,
> > although it does seem cleaner.  Anyone else have any thoughts?
> 
> I'd be interested to hear if others have experienced the same
> inconvenience as I have.
> 
> > -What would happen with away messages that already have duplicate titles?
> 
> Existing away messages with duplicate would still function as expected. 
> 
> > -Could you submit this to Gaim's sourceforge patch tracker so we can follow it
> > easier?
> 
> Errr...I just submitted it but now I'm removing it.  The problem with
> this patch would be that if you simply edited a message, you wouldn't be
> able to save it as its existing name, as it would force a rename.  One
> solution would be to have a gaim_request_yes_no asking if the user would
> like to overwrite an existing away message based on the title.  A
> problem with that, however, would be existing duplicates.
> 
> Dah, I can't think...too much studying.  If you can think for me and
> have any ideas, let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> Jon Oberheide
> jo...@fo...