[telepathy-spec/master] ChannelDispatcher: improve rationale for Preferred_Handler disregarding filter

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Fri Nov 27 04:00:48 PST 2009


---
 spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml b/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml
index 75362f3..7b4ccab 100644
--- a/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml
+++ b/spec/Channel_Dispatcher.xml
@@ -205,7 +205,9 @@
             <p>The filter should be disregarded for ease of use of this
               interface: clients will usually use this argument to request
               channels be sent to themself, and this should trump the filter
-              not matching.</p>
+              not matching. This also allows a client to become the handler
+              for a channel produced by one of its own requests, while not
+              being a candidate to handle other channels of that type.</p>
           </tp:rationale>
 
           <p>If this is a well-known bus name and the handler has the
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1.5.6.5




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