[Adium-devl] libpurple: personal message != status message

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Thu Sep 11 02:17:07 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 23:10 -0700, Peter Hosey wrote:
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 23:07:03, Richard Laager wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:21 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> That's because Pidgin never really fully embraced the public alias  
> >> (nickname). Still, some people understand them, and protocols like  
> >> WLM have both.
> >
> > If another protocol has the same thing, I wouldn't be opposed to  
> > handling this in libpurple. If this is MSN-centric, then it can be  
> > handled by the prpl as an account action (as it is now).
> >
> > Is there another protocol that has a similar thing?
> 
> Are you talking about the friendly name/nickname/“public alias”, or  
> the personal message?

The "friendly name".

Richard
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