[Bug 24897] New: asses what to do about profiles

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24897

           Summary: asses what to do about profiles
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: low
         Component: tp-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
            Blocks: 24894


Maemo 5 uses various extended interfaces beyond what's in telepathy-spec,
including those in:

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=telepathy-mission-control.git;a=tree;f=xml;hb=master

One of those is Account.Interface.Compat, which includes the "Profile"
property. We should decide whether it makes sense to store this property.

Profiles currently serve several purposes:

* provide a set of presets for account creation

Account creation UIs can do this themselves, by having specialized UI for an
account type (e.g. in Empathy 2.28). Having created the account, the profile
doesn't need to be tracked.

However, one rationale for reading the .profile files that is not addressed by
Empathy 2.28 was that third parties (especially SIP providers, who typically
need various esoteric account settings) can give their users a .profile file to
install, and immediately be available in an unmodified account-creation UI.

* provide a way to determine an icon name for an account

Icon obsoletes this (e.g. in Empathy 2.28, Icon=im-google-talk is set on new
GTalk accounts).

* provide miscellaneous information about capabilities, etc.

This is Bug #17836.


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