[Bug 24061] TpAccount, TpAccountManager: add convenience API similar to libempathy's

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24061





--- Comment #28 from Jonny Lamb <jonny.lamb at collabora.co.uk>  2009-09-26 10:37:39 PST ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> Having expressed concern about the "kick MC 5 if it crashes" functionality
> landing in TpAccountManager, I now realise that a reasonable solution would be
> API something like:
> 
>     am = tp_account_manager_new (...);
>     tp_account_manager_enable_restart (am);
> 
> If we later decide that it's desirable to have in every application, we can
> make this functionality always active, and make the opt-in call a no-op; if we
> decide it was a bad idea, we can deprecate it (and if it turns out to have been
> really bad, again make the call a no-op).
> 
> I personally think that when Empathy gets split up into components, the
> presence-setting applet should kick MC if it crashes, but the other bits
> shouldn't.

I implemented this quickly, but Sjoerd said that we were going to stick with
the current way and transition to activating the AM somehow in the future.

So, I've currently replied to and/or fixed all comments regarding this branch.


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