msn-pecan now has direct connection support (fast file transfers)

[Mark Doliner]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:02:47 -0500, Daniel Atallah wrote
> I guess it really doesn't matter what people want to put in the 
> status message field; I still don't see any difference between this 
> "PSM" (of which the SM is "Status Message", right? :P) and what 
> we're calling a "Status Message".  Perhaps it is that the name of 
> the status message field is confusing (although I don't know why 
> that would be the case as the PSM is named almost identically) - it 
> really is just a freeform field that you can put whatever you want 
> in it.  There are a number of people on my buddy list who put all 
> sorts of random things in their xmpp and AIM status messages in 
> Pidgin, exactly like the behavior you're describing with the MSN 
> field, so I really don't see why it should be mapped to anything different.
> 
> By mapping PSM to Pidgin's status message, we offer the flexibility 
> of keeping a number of preset messages that can be switched between 
> at the same time as setting the status, and it fits well within the 
> unified interface methodology of Pidgin.

Yes!  I agree with these two paragraphs immensely.  Excellent summarization.