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Bug 599415 - should fall back gracefully if CM does not support Message_Type_Action
should fall back gracefully if CM does not support Message_Type_Action
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-23 15:19 UTC by Simon McVittie
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description Simon McVittie 2009-10-23 15:19:01 UTC 
16:05 < wjt> does butterfly support Message_Type_Action?
16:05 < smcv> wjt: it doesn't, Empathy tries anyway and gives me an error
16:06 < smcv> does MSN have the concept of an action message?
16:06 < smcv> arguably Empathy should turn (ACTION, "drinks heavily") into 
              (NORMAL, "*** drinks heavily") for protocols that can't do 
              actions properly
...
16:07 < wjt> Maybe Empathy should send "/me laughs" as-is
...
16:08 < smcv> having the UI be
16:08 < smcv> *** drinks heavily
16:09 < smcv> or even
16:09 < smcv> /me drinks heavily
16:09 < smcv> would be considerably better than just erroring!
...
16:11 < Zdra> smcv, empathy does not uses Messages
16:11 < Zdra> smcv, and does not try any caps
16:12 < Zdra> smcv, we are using old Text iface ;)
16:12 < smcv> Zdra: ok, so Empathy is also at fault, it should call 
              Text.GetMessageTypes(), and use the result for graceful fallback
16:12 < smcv> Zdra: however, butterfly currently prevents that from working in 
              any case

In the case of Butterfly this is blocked by <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24699>.
Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2009-10-23 16:13:02 UTC 
Not actually blocked, since apparently Butterfly only returns NORMAL from GetMessageTypes().
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:47:37 UTC 
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