[Bug 31328] New: document that collaborative apps shouldn't normally use FT

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31328

           Summary: document that collaborative apps shouldn't normally
                    use FT
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: git master
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: lowest
         Component: tp-spec
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


Rescuing this from doc/dispatch.txt before I delete it:

> File transfers might be a useful model for collaborative applications
> to use to transfer snapshots of state, or to transfer related files
> (e.g. in a word processor, you could receive an inline image that is
> embedded in the document). This is much like dis6_.
> 
> Additional problems: if the file transfer is part of the word processor's
> IPC mechanism, then it *really* wants to get the file transfer, rather than
> having another process get it as a result of a situation like dis5c_.
> 
> Proposed implementation: Don't do this.

The only case where FT-as-IPC might be appropriate is where you do want the
fallback behaviour to be "save it as a file". If you send someone a Tomboy note
with ContentType = "text/x-tomboy", but they don't in fact have Tomboy, then
perhaps just saving a blob of text to their downloads folder is what you
wanted?

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