Re: [Gaim-devel] A question and an offer, re: MSN functionality

[Sean E. <bj...@bi...>]

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 01:13, Kris Newman wrote:
> Hoping this is the place to make this request, if not, please tell me to
> go pound sand...
> 
> Is it possible to configure Gaim to send the selected away message when
> on MSN? It works great in AIM, but it doesn't under MSN. This is one of
> the nicest features in Trillian, and IMO, the one thing missing from
> Gaim. I'm a fairly recent convert from Windows-land, and Gaim was pretty
> central to my being able to make the switch. I use MSN for work, and the
> ability to send the away message is extremely helpful.

If Luke's right, and you do indeed mean an autoresponse on MSN, Gaim
used to do that, but purposely disabled it.  MSN users tend not to
expect responses when you're away and it confuses then when they IM you
and get one response back and then nothing--at least it does in my
experience.

> And if not...
> 
> Is there anyone on this list who would consider writing a patch for the
> gaim-applet on a free-lance basis? 
> 
> I'd be willing to pay for that functionality, with the hope that such a
> patch could be considered for inclusion into the next version of Gaim.

Index: src/server.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/gaim/gaim/src/server.c,v
retrieving revision 1.227
diff -u -r1.227 server.c
--- src/server.c	23 Apr 2002 16:30:09 -0000	1.227
+++ src/server.c	23 Sep 2002 05:45:19 -0000
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@
 
 		/* regardless of whether we queue it or not, we should send an
auto-response. That is,
 		 * of course, unless the horse.... no wait. */
-		if ((away_options & OPT_AWAY_NO_AUTO_RESP) || !strlen(gc->away) ||
+		if ((away_options & OPT_AWAY_NO_AUTO_RESP) ||
 				((away_options & OPT_AWAY_IDLE_RESP) && !gc->is_idle)) {
 			g_free(name);
 			g_free(message);

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That'll be $29.99 plus shipping and handling.