pidgin3: PLUGIN_HOWTO@231abd732132 (annotated)

PLUGIN_HOWTO@231abd732132 (annotated)

PLUGIN_HOWTO

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:35:34 +0000

author: Mark Doliner <markdoliner@pidgin.im>
date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:35:34 +0000
changeset 28237: 231abd732132
parent 16238: 33bf2fd32108
child 28289: ae4cf144214c
permissions: -rw-r--r--

Stop attempting to fetch oscar buddy info automatically for people on our
buddy list. tmm1 (Aman Gupta) correct pointed out that the only thing we
need this for is to show users' status messages in the buddy list, and new
AIM clients have been putting the status message in the userinfo block which
is sent as part of the presence. So we can eliminate a lot of code.

We now grab screen name formatting when we get the initial presence for
buddies rather than when we get the auto-fetched info

And the "message" stored in the buddy's PurpleStatus will now be
plaintext even when the away message contains HTML. This is because
the status message from the userinfo block is always plaintext.
This doesn't cause problems for any UIs that I'm aware of, but let
me know if it undesirable for you.

Fixes #9843

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