Pidgin and Communicator 2.0

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:40:56AM -0600, Cary Petterborg wrote:
> These have probably been discussed here before (I'm new to the list),
> but I've searched and haven't found any answers to my problems.
> 
> I am connected with the sipe plugin to a MS Communicator. There are a
> couple of issues that I have. Any help would be greatly appreciated:
> 
> 1- I get HTML coding coming through with text from people on
> Communicator 2.0, for example:
> 
>         (11:19:43 AM) Axxxxxxxxxxxx at ldschurch.org: <DIV
>         style="font-size: 9pt;font-family: MS Shell Dlg 2;color:
>         #000000;direction: ltr">Yeah. Which plug in are you using? The
>         new SIPE?</DIV>	

GtkIMHtml doesn't support the DIV tag, the prpl should convert it to a
formatting that GtkIMHtml understands (probably by using FONT and
SPAN), or strip it.

> 2- People on Communicator 2.0 don't see me as online when I am. It
> usually says I'm off-line.

This is a problem with the plugin.

> 
> 3- I don't always see the right status for someone that is on
> Communicator whose status is not "on-line." Sometimes it shows Busy
> instead of Away, etc.

This is a problem with the plugin.

-khc