presence storage for non-buddies

[Eion Robb]

Not just presence/status and not just XMPP.  Also includes server-side
aliases in multi-user chats, buddy icons, status messages.  They're all
things that the prpl provide anyway, but libpurple has no way to provide
that info to the UI because there's no PurpleBuddy (because it needs to be
on the blist).  Some kind of hidden group or PurpleBlistNodeFlag (similar
to the NOSAVE flag) might be more useful?


On 10 April 2013 23:29, Tomasz Wasilczyk <tomkiewicz at cpw.pidgin.im> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it seems, that libpurple doesn't handle presence information for
> non-buddies, even, if protocol supports it.
>
> Two use cases:
> - I'm opening a new conversation with unknown contact (Ctrl+M in buddy
> list), status doesn't show up [1]; there is also a ticket for that [2]
> - I'm in the xmpp MUC and opening conversation with someone, that I
> don't have on my buddy list - their status is unknown, despite having
> it received via MUC
>
> I don't think this is desired behavior, so I suggest implementing
> presence handling for non-buddies. That may include adding additional
> callback to PurplePluginProtocolInfo, for requesting status for
> buddies not on our list (or maybe for those without presence set?).
>
> I also think, that it could be attached to XMPP GSoC project idea.
>
> What's your opinion?
> Tomek
>
> [1] http://i.imgur.com/70xXCSD.png
> [2] https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9479
>
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