[API Change] Instant room list

[Eion Robb]

Could this be better implemented as a call similar to the get server alias
function that's available for buddies? Or are you just talking about what
columns are shown in the server room browser?
On Sep 12, 2012 6:54 AM, "Tomasz Wasilczyk" <tomkiewicz.groups at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently working on conferences for Gadu-Gadu protocol and it
> turned out, there is a need for two new features in libpurple.
>
> Display names vs chat room names:
> conferences in Gadu-Gadu are identified by a single, 64-bit integer.
> It doesn't look [1] really pretty, nor user-friendly. Original
> Gadu-Gadu client uses [2] some chat participants to generate a name,
> but Pidgin cannot handle it this way, because conference names
> shouldn't change and should be unique. My idea was to provide an
> optional "display name", used only for displaying chat name in UI. It
> could be done just like purple_conv_chat_set_topic. Can I do it this
> way?
>
> Instant room list:
> Gadu-Gadu holds all accessible rooms list in memory, so there is no
> need to perform any time consuming tasks to get it. That means, there
> is no need for wait for clicking "Get list" button before displaying
> it (more user-friendliness!). It could be performed in two ways:
> - statically, by adding another protocol option:
> OPT_PROTO_INSTANT_ROOM_LIST
> - dynamically, by adding "gboolean
> *(*roomlist_is_ready)(PurpleConnection *gc);" callback - it could be
> useful for protocols like IRC, to make use of previously got list
> Can I implement one of these?
>
> Also: purple_roomlist_set_in_progress cannot be called within
> roomlist_get_list callback (see nullprpl). Is it a bug, or feature? I
> just want to instantly return complete room list.
>
> Waiting for comments and API related decisions,
> Tomek
>
> [1] http://i.imgur.com/y1YJN.png
> [2] http://i.imgur.com/Qwg7a.png
>
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