Request new feature related to ldap -- show contacts photo automatically

[Joey Jiao]

Thanks for your feedback.
I found ubuntu stock pidgin and sipe plugin doesn't have this
function. But by compile lastest sipe plugin from source, the icon
downloaded automatically which is cool.

Meanwhile I added more contact info (mobile phone, office location,
deparment inf) when pressing ctrl + o at
https://github.com/JoeyJiao/siplcs/commits/joey.

2012/12/6 Peter Lawler <bleeter at gmail.com>:
> On 06/12/12 00:07, Joey Jiao wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pidgin Developers,
>> I noticed that pidgin has a 'Set Custom Icon' feature, but I only can
>> pick photo from local disk.
>> Actually, if you are familiar with lync - office communicator, you can
>> see the photo is automatically downloaded.
>
>
> Icons should be automatically downloaded on each protocol, as long as
> they've been previously set. By setting a custom icon,  protocol dependent,
> the server side icon is updated. At least, this is what I recall.
>
> What you describe would be best served by a generic non-standard plugin. I
> don't see the functionality to be so compelling that it'd need to be in
> core. Such a plugin would not be shipped as 'standard' with Pidgin unless a
> developer agrees to maintain it forever.
>
> Pete.



-- 
-Joey Jiao