Re: [Gaim-devel] Gaim and gnomemeeting

[Christopher (s. O'B. <si...@pr...>]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 12:12 -0500, Tim Ringenbach wrote:
> Christopher (siege) O'Brien wrote:
> >On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 16:09 +0200, PUYDT Julien wrote:
> >>There are several ways this could be achieved:
> >>1) if there's some way to add some information on an existing contact
> >>(an uri, typically), and associate a new action to those contacts who
> >>have that information, then all should be well: right click on the
> >>contact in gaim, choose "Call..." and voila! That would probably be the
> >>best solution both in terms of code and ease of use.
> >
> >This would actually be almost trivial. Adding actions to the right-click
> >menu is a simple enough task for a plugin, and buddies can have
> >arbitrary key/value pairs associated with them that will be stored with
> >the buddy list.
> >
> Aren't you forgetting something? Where do you get this uri you're 
> storing on the buddy?

The request API... ?

> Trying to send extra information through 3rd party protocols probably 
> isn't going to be trivial or pretty.

I certainly didn't read anything about fetching that URI automatically
through another prpl. The explanation of chatting via IM, then deciding
to go gnome-meeting seems more an explanation of use (noting that the
integration still keeps IM and gnome-meeting separate, and that an
action must be taken to change mediums) than an explanation of where
the data comes from. Perhaps I misunderstood?

It's possible that the plugin could later add in support for a
directory browser, but that's hardly necessary in the beginning.
Manually associate a callto: URI with a buddy, and use it to start a
call quickly. It's not as useful with the direct target IP of course,
but that's what callto is for, right?

- siege

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