On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:02, Guillaume Desmottes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guillaume.desmottes@collabora.co.uk">guillaume.desmottes@collabora.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im"><br></div> AFAIK there is no plan to expose contacts' resource in Telepathy (and so<br> Empathy). That's XMPP specific and most user don't use/understand it<br> (for example Google Talk randomize the resource iirc).<br> <div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is quite useful when user is logged in from multiple workstations, or even from one workstation. It is possible to know if user is at home, or at work, or wherever. A practical example is my friend with n810 PDA. He can log in using PC or n810. I can see if I should be bothering him by looking at his Resource, and whether or not he can receive files. Resource is quite useful despite being somewhat underused. Gtalk randomizing it does not mean Gtalk is doing things "the right way" and that we should ignore Resource just because Gtalk does it.</div> <div><br></div><div>I hope that you guys incorporate this in plans for Telepathy and Empathy. I'm not familiar with Telepathy capabilities, but don't you have some sort of "meta-field" capability for contact's data? That is, protocol-specific contact data? If you do, it should be trivial to expose Resource through this mechanism.</div> </div><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Ivan Vučica <br><br>