[Decibel] Planning a TpQt4 port of Decibel

[George Goldberg]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2009 04:11:05 George Goldberg wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On Monday 09 February 2009 12:41:55 George Goldberg wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> >> 2) Decibel chooses the best way to open a channel to a contact. It
>> >> selects the most appropriate of your accounts and buddy-list entries
>> >> to get a channel of the requested type to that contact.
>> >
>> > Personally, I would expect the client to be able to do this rather than
>> > Decibel doing it for the user. For example, we get a lot of requests in
>> > Kopete to be able to choose what account to use for messaging, even
>> > though we have heuristics to choose an appropriate contact. Once we have
>> > feature parity across all the various protocols, this may not matter as
>> > much though.
>>
>> imho thats pretty simple to fix. Decibel has its heuristic for
>> choosing the account to use, but if the user sets a default way to
>> text-chat with contact XXX or whatever, then Decibel will go with
>> that. (These defaults could of course be set by the IM GUI, but would
>> be effective globally whatever the IM application they use).
>>
>> --
>
> As long as the app can override this, then that's fine. I would expect Decibel
> to figure this out automatically.

agreed.

--
George