[Pidgin] #13541: Display subjects for messages on XMPP

Mon Mar 21 11:21:52 EDT 2011

#13541: Display subjects for messages on XMPP
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 Reporter:  chemistrydioxide  |     Owner:  deryni
     Type:  defect            |    Status:  new   
Component:  XMPP              |   Version:  2.7.11
 Keywords:  subject           |  
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 On XMPP, messages can have subject lines. Here's an example:
 {{{
 <message from='example.com' to='john.doe at example.com'
 type='normal'><subject>Server will be down for
 maintenance</subject><body>This will happen from 2011-11-21, 12 hours til
 2011-11-22, 13 hours.

 Regards,
 Earnest Xonan Ample, Admin</body></message>
 }}}

 When pidgin receives a message of the latter kind, it only displays the
 message body but not the subject which is a loss of information. In the
 example above, it would not even become clear what the message is about.

 Of course, I don't understand why instant messages should have subject
 lines like e-mails, but I do think that these should not be silently
 discarded. I think that the subject line should be displayed as the first
 line of the message, maybe in '''bold''' so it can be recognized as a
 heading.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/13541>
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