GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 116788
Add actions for transports
Last modified: 2011-01-31 11:59:33 UTC
Currently, if your, say, ICQ transport goes down, it just dissapears from you r gossip window. In Gabber, they stayed visible in "disconnected" state, so you could left click and "Log in" again. Other gabber actions were "Log out" (to voluntarily switch the protocol off), "Remove transport" entirely and I'm too sleepy to think of more stuff in that menu. Probably that's all the interesting stuff.
The support for transports are currently non-existent, it just works somewhat because of the nature of the Jabber protocol. As for how we want it in Gossip we don't want to show the terrible nature of transports but rather try to make it look like native support (ala GAIM) _but_ have it using transports. Ie, we consider the fact that they are transports an implementation issue, not a user visible thing. So, having them in the roster at all doesn't really make sense since it isn't contacts.
As I understand new there are no ability to add a new trasport and people can't talk with other IM system when using gossip :( I think we should add this ability ASAP, because there are a lots of people using different IM systems.
There is currently a gossip-transports branch which has support for using other protocols via the Jabber interface. We are working towards bringing this to the masses and merging the work to the HEAD branch. As far as having transport specific functions (like Log On and Log Off) are concerned, my branch does make a start by having a slightly different context menu on the roster, but I believe the roster is not the right place for transports so I am not sure how that will all work out.
Yeah, I left the bug open not to add the functionality to the contact list but rather to add the functionality somewhere.
Removing target milestone, since we don't know when or if this feature will be re-added yet.
Gossip development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. You may use 'empathy' for similar functionality. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.