Re: [Gaim-devel] Save list of users to add to MSN Chat?

[Jesse F. <far...@uc...>]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 12:08, Luke Schierer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 04:53:07PM +0100, d.j...@bc... wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is probably a feature request, but it would be great if I could save a 
> > list of users who I could start an MSN chat session to with a single click.
> > 
> > The example we have here is that there are about 10 users in the development 
> > group and I'd like to chat to them all about 3 times a day.  This gets rather 
> > tedious to click on each individually every time.  
> > 
> > I'm assuming that there is no way to do this in the 0.66 release?
> 
> you are correct, the only way to do so right now is to right click to 
> initiate a chat. it would however, be possible to do this with a plugin, 
> and I think that such would be the best course of action, since this is 
> something almost guaranteed to confuse people and most certainly a 
> corner-case use. you'd want to intercept the new conversation, check 
> against the list, and initate a chat if it matches a sn in the list, and 
> close the conversation. from a c plugin all the functions to do this 
> should be available, as the biggest limitation to c plugins is the 
> signals available, not the functions.
> 
> luke
Rather than writing a plugin to store this second quasi-buddy list,
wouldn't it be easier to implement something where, for example,
ctrl+click and shift+click allow you to select multiple buddies?  I know
Gtk can do with with GTK_SELECTION_EXTENDED, but I don't know what would
be involved in implementing it in Gaim's buddy list.

-- 
Jesse Farmer <far...@uc...>