Re: [Gaim-devel] Notify on Closure of MSN Windows

[Christian H. <ch...@gn...>]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 06:33:52AM +0000, Robert McQueen wrote:
> Erm, if we provide an option to mask notifying people that we're typing
> to them, surely it's far more important to have an option to turn window
> closure notification on and off? I don't care about typing, but a lot of
> conversations can have gaps in or go slowly and I'm quite agressive with
> tab garbage-collection. I wouldn't want my MSN 'buddies' to think I'm
> giving them the brush off. =)
> 
> But conversely, can we get a message when they close their window? :P

Well, this is what the patch was for (the first one). It notifies you
when the other user closes the window. Everybody complained that it
didn't send the message (it did here, but whatever), so I manually
added the command for that.

Now, I do not think we have control over whether the other user sees
when we close the window. This is not a special command. When you
close a connection with the switchboard server, you are (from what the
specification says) required to send a "BYE user@domain\r\n" string
before closing. The clients will then see this and discontinue the
connection, and show this. When I was testing my patch, the server was
sending the BYE when I was using gaim, even though it wasn't sent by
our code. However, it didn't do this for other people, so maybe the
server is goofy. Either way, though, we don't have control over this.
It's just part of the protocol.

I didn't even know about this feature until I closed a tab with a
friend one day on accident, and she said, "Where'd you go?? Why'd you
leave?" It was then that I researched and found this feature. (I have
never used MSN Messenger).

Christian

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