Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: GAIM_CONV_{IM,CHAT} windows

[Nathan W. <fac...@fa...>]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 04:43:15AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> I've been looking into adding another way to distinguish between gaim
> connections.  When you have multiple IRC connections, all using the same
> nick (I generally connect to around 6 networks), it's hard to tell them
> apart in the Accounts list, and the Send As pulldown.  Modifying the
> gaim_connection struct isn't an option, because it's not assigned to the
> aim_user until an actual connection is created; so, the aim_user struct is
> the way to go, I think.  I'm looking for suggestions on how to cleanly do
> this; the gaim framework would have to be told where to grab this server
> string from, would have to be told that there is a server string (for
> something like OSCAR, it's not necessary; for IRC, perhaps use
> OPT_PROTO_SERVER_DISPLAY as a protocol option to tell it to display the
> server), and would need to have something initialize this string after
> .gaimrc is read, but before the Accounts screen could be displayed. =20

I'm working on a scheme to fix this.

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