[kopete-bugs] [Bug 241942] New: RFE Option to change /me messages to Action MessageType for protocols besides IRC

[ietc at gmx.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241942

           Summary: RFE Option to change /me messages to Action
                    MessageType for protocols besides IRC
           Product: kopete
           Version: 1.00
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kopete-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: ietc at gmx.net


Version:           1.00 (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                Linux

It may not be standard to protocols like AIM and ICQ, but Pidgin (formerly
GAIM) alters messages received (and locally typed) that are prefixed with "/me"
so that:

   /me types an action.

becomes

   Name types an action.

with whatever decoration goes with the Action MessageType.  Quite a few of my
buddies have used this feature thinking that my client, Kopete, would support
it as well (probably out of habit, really).

It appears that someone wrote a plugin for the KDE 3.5.x series to do exactly
this, but the devs weren't keen on having a plugin for just this one function
and the author didn't want to develop a patch for the KDE 4 environment.

http://www.mail-archive.com/kopete-devel@kde.org/msg11266.html

But I do know that at least the Action MessageType is there to be exploited,
because Kopete supports IRC and also because of this:

http://kopete.kde.org/chatwindowstyleguide/index.html

Incoming/Action.html, Outgoing/Action.html (Optional) (Kopete Extension)

   This template is a Kopete extension to the Adium format. It is available for
Incoming and Outgoing direction. Action messages are special message to tell we
are doing a action. Example: "/me is installing Kopete" would be displayed as
"DarkShock is installing Kopete". 

Reproducible: Didn't try

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