PURPLE_MESSAGE_DELAYED flag

[Masca]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Mark Doliner <mark at kingant.net> wrote:
> We have this handy flag that signals to the core that an incoming IM
> or chat message is "delayed."  Our sound playing code doesn't play a
> sound if the flag is set.  The Message Notification plugin doesn't
> notify if the flag is set.  And the Finch GntHistory plugin sets the
> flag when prepending recent conversation history into an IM window.
>
> The ONLY place this flag is set is when receiving a "delayed" Jabber
> conference message.  This has generally been used to send you the
> recent room history when you join a conference room.
>
> My question: Is there any reason we're not setting this flag all over
> the place?  Like when receiving an offline IM on all our protocols?  I
> feel like there was a reason we weren't doing this for IMs, but I
> don't remember what it was.  And it might be nice for UIs to know that
> a message is delayed without having to look at the timestamp on the
> message.
>
> -Mark
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I think is a good idea to set the DELAYED flag to offline im. And want
to point you to the patch at #2994,