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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [kopete-devel] jabber group chats and notifications
From:       Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter () stpeter ! im>
Date:       2008-10-01 14:45:42
Message-ID: 48E38D16.6040506 () stpeter ! im
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David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Matt Rogers wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:20 AM, David Faure wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm starting to use kopete, for jabber group chats.
>>> When joining a channel, I get a week of messages as passive popups,  
>>> making the whole thing
>>> very unusable until those notifications go away.
>>> I'm ready to patch the code, but would be glad to get some guidance  
>>> about the proper way
>>> to fix this.
>>>
>>> Would it be ok to add a "Incoming Message in Group Chat"  
>>> notification type?
>>>
>> Are you getting passive popups about people who are already present  
>> joining the chat or just lots of messages in a busy group chat?
> 
> The latter. Lots of messages.
> Also because the groupchat was configured to issue a week of backlog when joining in,
> so that we can see what was said while we were away.
> So when joining, I get a TON of passive popups.

In XMPP, these messages should all be flagged with the "delayed
delivery" extension, so you could use that (and type='groupchat') to
turn off popups.

But sending an entire week of discussion history on joining the room
seems excessive to me. :)

Peter

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