[Pidgin] #9405: Windows OLE (or whatever it's called) support so I can paste images and other stuff

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#9405: Windows OLE (or whatever it's called) support so I can paste images and
other stuff
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 Reporter:  jhallen      |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new         
Milestone:               |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.5.6        |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by jhallen):

 Let me clarify this request: it is really several requests (I should have
 filed several tickets):

 1. Add support for images using sametime server.  Sametime clients can
 send images through sametime server, why not pidgin?

 2. Allow pasting of images from the clipboard with Ctrl-V.

 3. Support Windows OLE (or whatever they call it these days), so that even
 if the object in the clipboard is not a simple bitmap image, it gets
 converted to one for pasting.

 For example, I can select a Microsoft Visio vector drawing and then paste
 it into Sametime with Ctrl-V.  Sametime doesn't know anything about Visio,
 instead it asks (using OLE) for the object to be converted to a bitmap
 image and pastes that instead.

 4. Support displaying lotus notes database links as links.  For example, I
 can type: http://www.google.com into pidgin, and pidgin knows its a link,
 highlights it in blue and allows me to click on it.  The same thing should
 happen if I type something like Notes://1234/5678/

 5. Support pasting of lotus notes database links into pidgin with Ctrl-V.
 So if I select "copy database as link" from within Lotus Notes, I should
 be able to paste it into pidgin (instead I get the markup stuff you see in
 my original note above).

 Basically I want to use pidgin in place of lotus sametime without losing
 any of the sametime features I normally use.  Why? Pidgin has other
 protocols, is more stable, uses less memory/CPU, etc.

 Thanks.

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