[Bug 24939] Interface for upgrading chats/calls to multi-user

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24939





--- Comment #15 from Jonny Lamb <jonny.lamb at collabora.co.uk>  2010-03-08 13:21:31 PST ---
I'm looking to implement Conference in butterfly to see how well it fits. All
the examples here and on the draft interface provide more than enough
information for how to deal with moving from a 1-1 chat to a multi-user chat,
but nothing for the other way round.

Let's take this example:

1. You're chatting to contact J1 on channel C1.
2. Either you or J1 "invites" J2 to the conversation, which ends
   up with a new channel, C2, which is a group channel with you,
   C1 and C2 in. C1 remains open where you can bitch about J2
   behind his or her back.

Up to this point, this is great, and well documented. Now,

3. J2 realises that you and J1 are ganging up on him or her and
   decides to take it to court, so disconnects to free his or her
   line to call his or her lawyer.
4. C1 is still a 1-1 chat with J1. C2 is still a MUC but with just
   you and J1 in.

The situation in 4 sounds a little odd, but I guess I would accept the answer
"yes, suck it up". Thinking about it now, I'm not sure what else we could
possibly do?

Looking back in my memory of the times when I used the Windows MSN Messenger
client, they have this exact same issue, except because of their UI, C2 is less
obviously a MUC (or, given how the MSN switchboards work, C2 has downgraded,
internally). If I remember correctly, you could continue talking to J1 in both
C1 and C2, although obviously most people just closed one of the two open
channels.

When I started writing this comment, I was a little unclear on how downgrading
should work, but at this point, I think it's just how I described, right?


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