[Bug 21957] Doesn't implement SimplePresence

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21957

--- Comment #11 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> 2011-03-21 07:44:34 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> I had a discussion with Sjoerd on IRC about this.
> 
> What XChat-GNOME does is issue a WHO message (not WHOIS) every 9 minutes
> against each channel and the reply has a list of nicks and some elementary
> presence information. It uses "H" or "G" to indicate if a nick is here or gone,
> and "@" or "+" to indicate if the nick is an operator, etc..
> 
> So maybe we can do the same thing, and if we notice that a nick has gone from
> "H" to "G", then we can issue a WHOIS message against that particular nick, and
> pick up the away message.

This sounds good to me too. The only downside is that someone who changes their
message while away will have a stale message displayed until you hit them up
with ContactInfo — doesn't seem like too great a downside though. And when you
do hit them up with ContactInfo, the SimplePresence information can be updated.

> This does lead to some overlap with ContactInfo in the sense that ContactInfo
> also returns some x-presence-XXXX vcard fields because we get that for free
> from the reply to a WHOIS message. But I guess that is alright because IRC
> users expect their clients to show the away message when they issue a /whois
> against a particular nick.

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