Adium

Ticket #7349 (new enhancement)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Jabber Transport contacts integrating with address book

Reported by: durin42 Assigned to: am
Priority: normal Milestone: Good idea for "later"
Component: Jabber/XMPP Version:
Severity: minor Keywords: WasOn1.5
Cc: Patch: None
Pending: 0

Description

adress book import

when using the adress book functions of adium you have to edit all your adressbook contacts.
for example your buddy "john average" uses icq, you have to put "111111111@icq.your-jabber-server.com" into his adressbook card and change the service from icq to jabber. otherwise it wont work with adium. it would be very very handy if adium would just know that it is a icq contact, check the gateway, see "aha - this user is registered via gateway blah" and everything is fine.

adium could even show the correct service icon etc. pp.

probably this point needs some discussion as it probably needs a lot of hacking. but from a user perspective this "it just works" integration would be really convenient and cool :-)

Change History

07/30/2007 11:54:05 PM changed by am

  • type changed from defect to enhancement.

09/17/2007 10:57:41 AM changed by tick

  • keywords set to WasOn1.5.
  • milestone changed from Adium X 1.5 to Good idea for "later".

As the group chat SoC 2007 project completed successfully, we no longer require a group chat milestone. As such, I'm going to move all of these over to Good Idea for "later". Process these normally, reassign as needed to the new 1.x milestones created last night.

05/15/2008 08:38:11 AM changed by djmori

07/08/2008 03:27:56 AM changed by chrissearle

Given that you are logged into a jabber account then it could use that account's domain when testing the contact to see if it is a transport (match @*.<your account's domain>). Tho of course you would need to check for each jabber account.

A different approach would be changing the add contact for jabber to allow specifically for adding transported contacts (allowing adium to store the info as real contact/IM type + transport server) - but that would probably be a much larger change.

This would be very useful for people who sync their address book to social service nets (plaxo etc) where they receive updates from their contacts themselves - since these will have e.g. the MSN address rather than the MSN via a particular jabber server.

I wish I could look at this - but - I'm not an Objective-C coder :(