Direct IM requests and the Request API

Sadrul Habib Chowdhury imadil at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 07:25:31 EDT 2007


* Evan Schoenberg had this to say on [14 Apr 2007, 11:59:48 -0400]:
<snip> 
> 1) Such requests should be shown inline in the chat window if at all  
> possible.  To that end, using something non-generic which instead  
> passed in the PurpleConversation (or PurpleBuddy and PurpleAccount)  
> associated with the request would allow the UI to do that.  I don't  
> know if Pidgin or Finch can show a message with clickable buttons in  
> the message window... if they can't, they could still pop up a new  
> window.

I like the idea of showing requests in conversation windows when/if
possible. I created a mockup for finch to see how it would look, and
here's the result: http://pidgin.im/~sadrul/ss/conv-req.png. I think
I like it.

Sadrul



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