[Telepathy] Text Message Flags

Will Thompson will.thompson at collabora.co.uk
Mon Oct 18 01:48:43 PDT 2010


On 18/10/10 00:12, David Edmundson wrote:
> Does "Truncated" mean that the message has been split, and I'll get the rest
> of the message later, or does it mean that some of the message is lost for
> good?

I think it probably was meant to mean that some of the message was lost 
for good.

> Should I show a message to the user saying "some of this message has been
> truncated" ?

Probably. I don't think any existing client actually pays any attention 
to this flag, because...

> Is there an easy way to test this happening (with a real world scenario)?

I've just grepped all the CMs and I don't see this flag used anywhere. 
I'm not sure what protocol it was added to the spec to support.

Thanks,
-- 
Will


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