[Bug 25636] In-place editing of messages

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25636

--- Comment #7 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> 2010-06-29 08:27:26 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> review+ from me for the branch wjt/supersedes in its current state.
> 
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Sjoerd has noted in real life that, in iChat's dialect of link-local XMPP,
> > typing notifications are sent along with the partially-composed text. We could
> > represent these by repeatedly superseding previous versions of a message!
> 
> I wonder whether we could have some convention like:
> 
> * if a message part has 'truncated':True, and the message is superseded by one
> where the corresponding part is a superset, UIs SHOULD replace the earlier
> message silently
> 
> * if a message header has 'draft':True, UIs SHOULD indicate it as a partial
> message, and expect it to be superseded; if that message is superseded, UIs
> SHOULD replace the earlier message silently

(Do we want to be able to *send* partially-composed text in typing
notifications? If so, this comes back to the UI needing to know whether or not
the CM supports particular headers.)

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