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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 94178] Better chat logs needed
From:       Richard Smith <kde () metafoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2004-12-01 15:56:55
Message-ID: 20041201155655.18582.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From kde metafoo co uk  2004-12-01 16:56 -------
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 19:57, k776 wrote:
> >> You want one text file per account? And you definitely want to
> >> store it as text?
>
> No, one text file per contact and one folder per account, but if only
> one account is made, just stroe in file:/home/k776/kopete/, not
> file:/home/k776/kopete/XXX/ where XXX is one for msn, icq, aol etc
> etc.

> And yes, text file is the easiest?? 

If the on-disk format of the history plugin were meant for people to read, 
then you'd be right. But it's really designed only for the history plugin to 
read. That said, XML isn't that hard to understand, so you ought to be OK 
reading the logs. It's a pity the history plugin decided to use a completely 
different XML format from the rest of Kopete or you'd be able to apply the 
XSL files to your history to generate pretty HTML views of it.

> >> I don't really understand what you mean by this. You want it laid
> >> out differently depending on the number of registered accounts?
>
> Yes, for eg:, I have one icq and one msn, so text chat logs for msn
> contacts go in file:/home/k776/kopete/msn/ and text chat logs for icq
> go in file:/home/k776/kopete/icq/ etc for the others. If you have more
> than one MSN account, you do file:/home/k776/kopete/msn
> [address whatever com]/ and file:/home/k776/kopete/msn
> [address whatever com]/

That is basically not going to happen. The extra complexity of moving the 
directories around when accounts are added / removed (and on loading the 
history plugin) is not worth the tiny improvement in navigation around the 
directory structure by users (which is not what the data is for anyway).

> >> And what if you've not run Kopete in the last three months? When do
> >> the files get moved? Why not just have a consistent system which
> >> doesn't depend on whether the logs are for today?
>
> If you chat to someone, then dont login for three months, logs would
> be archived if older than 30days.

How? Magically? If the program's not run, who moves them around?

Given all the above, your best bet would be either (1) to ask for a nicer 
history viewer, or (2) to ask for some sort of utility to export history XML 
to text files.
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