Ticket #112 (new enhancement)

Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Transport support must be multi-account aware

Reported by: jppavao Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.1
Component: GUI Version: version 0.8
Keywords: Cc:

Description

We currently only have a MSN preferences pane which was previously used to configure the MSN transport on the only existing account. Multi-account support is now implemented throughout the app, so the configuration of the transport agents should also be multi-account aware. It should also be multi transport agent aware so that the user can configure MSN, ICQ and AIM access on the same account/server.

A nice GUI for this has already been suggested by Melo: each MSN/AIM/whatever access would be configured just like any other account being used in the app. These accounts would be listed in the accounts prefs, next to the other "native" jabber accounts. However, they would have some additional configuration options for choosing the "native" jabber account that a given "transport account" is tied to.

Change History

Changed 5 years ago by jppavao

(In [174]) Made the MSN transport support multi-account aware. References #112.

Changed 5 years ago by dbcm

About the second paragraph, how you'll manage multiple desktops?

Imagine that your are using desktop1 and configure everything, how you will manage your account in desktop2?

Changed 5 years ago by melo

Well, I haven't though this through.

I guess we would need some sort of server-side storage.

The goal of the second paragraph was to hide the "transports" behind an usual Add Account interface. It would make it easier to bring people from other multi-network clients like Adium.

But yes, it still needs more though.

Changed 5 years ago by dbcm

In some transports, it's possible to have the same account in multiple locations. What i though was sapo msg detect what transports that support register is available in each account and enable them in the Transports tab.

Changed 5 years ago by melo

The same MSN or ICQ account on multiple transports at the same time?

Not really. ICQ/AIM only allow you to have one connection per account.

Only the latest MSN supports multiple connection and AFAIK the pyMSNt does not support that.

Don't know nothing about Yahoo.

Changed 5 years ago by jppavao

  • type changed from task to enhancement

Changed 5 years ago by jppavao

  • milestone changed from 1.0 to 1.1
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