Adding/Approving/Removing Contacts

[Dario Freddi]

On Thursday 31 March 2011 22:53:26 David Edmundson wrote:
> One of the outstanding features left before our first release is the adding
> and approving of contacts.
> 
> The main issue is the "who (which component) is responsible for doing
> this". I want to discuss this on the ML as I don't feel enough stuff is
> being discussed/announced at present.
> 
> I think "add contact" should go in the contact list, as it makes sense to
> open that to alter your contacts. Same for removing them.
> (I have a patch for this, waiting on Martin's merge)
> In future we have DrDanz's KJobs for doing this all with all the nepomuk
> jazz, and my "add user dialog" could be made shareable.
> 
> The issue is "approving contacts" (or to use the correct term
> presencePublicationRequested) when someone else adds you. Telepathy is
> always running and you may be signed in regardless of whether you have the
> contact list open. In this happens someone needs to notify the user of this
> event.
> 
> I was discussing with George K that this should go into the approver, it's
> always running all the time and communicates via KNotify. It seems a
> sensible choice (even the name fits)
> 
> Does anyone object to adding this functionality into the KDE approver?

Makes sense to me

> 
> @Telepathy-Qt4 people:
> What happens if everyone ignores the presencePublicationRequested() signal,
> and no-one calls authorisePresencePublication or anything? Is the incoming
> request lost forever?

I think this really boils down to the CM (maybe Olli or Andre can tell you 
more), but I suppose everytime the CM connects, it would stream the request 
again.

> 
> Dave

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Dario Freddi
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