From kopete-devel  Thu Dec 04 16:29:55 2008
From: Michael Larouche <larouche () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:29:55 +0000
To: kopete-devel
Subject: Re: [kopete-devel] Native nowlistening support
Message-Id: <200812041129.56315.larouche () kde ! org>
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Le décembre 3, 2008 10:53:17 AM Tiago Salem Herrmann, vous avez écrit :
> Olivier Goffart escreveu:
> > Le dimanche 30 novembre 2008, Tiago Salem Herrmann a écrit :
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've been playing with nowlistening to WLM last days.
> >> WLM protocol supports "listening to" in a native way, so we dont need to
> >> append strings to the "personal message", which I consider very bad.
> >>
> >> I'm sending a patch, and it is just an initial idea, as I know we should
> >> not add setCurrentSong() method in Account class, but as we have
> >> setStatusMessage() there, it was my only idea.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I don't know kopete internals and at least for the moment
> >> I have no idea how to do this in a better way.
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Tiago Salem Herrmann
> >
> > The old MSN plugin already did tha.
> > It used the StatusMessage metaData
> >
> > http://api.kde.org/4.1-api/kdenetwork-apidocs/kopete/libkopete/html/class
> >Kopete_1_1StatusMessage.html
> >
> > this could be improved,  but at least allow you to do what you want i
> > think.
>
> Ah, ok.. the only problem is that if we do not set nowlistening to
> append or to replace the status message with the current song, the
> protocol will never receive a notification, and then we cant handle
> metadata, and if we set to append or replace we do receive metadata but
> the personal status message is replaced as well.
> Is there a solution for that?
>
>
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the NowListening plugin should be modified to not include metadata when it is 
in "append to status message" mode.

Then in your protocol, test if the metadata are present.
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