Some ideas I had for Kopete

[George Goldberg]

On 22 September 2010 11:43, Daniele E. Domenichelli
<daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/22/2010 10:36 AM, George Goldberg wrote:
>>> Anyways, the mockups Edmundson asked me to send here:
>>> Old, incomplete mockup. If you don't understand something,
>>> ask: http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/2646/ideiaskopete.png
>>
>> At the moment, Telepathy does not support the concept of "identities"
>> as was supported in Kopete. I believe that if this were to be
>> implemented, there would need to be some support at the level of the
>> Telepathy specification (otherwise some applications would be aware of
>> identities, but others would not).
>
> I think that the concept of "Identities" could be more or less like
> having several PIMO::Persons instead of just "myself".

Agreed. If we were to support identities, it would need to be at a
much more fundamental and KDE-wide level.

> It \could\ be done, I think, but the only reason I can see in having
> identities is that we might want to support several persons that for
> some reason share the same account, or we might want to support people
> suffering a dissociative identity disorder. Like me. And also me.

Seems like a bit of a corner case to me ;)

> This means that if you really need 2 identities, you probably also want
> 2 different contact lists and 2 different presence plasmoid, so that
> each person can manage its own stuff, I don't see the point in having
> complex applications with all contacts mixed. The only app that should
> "show" the identities should be the kcm module for accounts configuration.

True

> There might be good reasons why one might want 2 identities. anyway the
> whole KDE supports just 1 person per account (just check system
> settings/account details) so I don't think we want to support this at
> the moment.

Strong agreement here. It would be a huge undertaking to make this
work KDE wide, for very little apparent benefit.

--
George