[Bug 64520] New: add Contact_Info_Field_Flag_Read_Only, for GTalk <URL>

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64520

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 64520
                CC: will.thompson at collabora.co.uk, xclaesse at gmail.com
          Assignee: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: add Contact_Info_Field_Flag_Read_Only, for GTalk <URL>
        QA Contact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Severity: enhancement
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
          Hardware: Other
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: tp-spec
           Product: Telepathy

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #64319 +++

Google recently added Google Plus URLs to GTalk users' XMPP vCards. Based on
some experimenting with the telepathy-gabble XMPP console, these turn out to be
read-only: you can try to set the <URL> to a different value, and it will claim
to succeed, but it has no effect.

With current Gabble, the field just doesn't appear in the Empathy UI (and
Empathy crashes, but 3.8.2 will fix that, and I'm backporting that patch to
3.4.x for Debian).

With a Gabble in which Bug #64319 has been fixed, the field will appear in the
Empathy UI and be editable. That doesn't seem great either: users will try to
edit it and be surprised when they can't. What we want is that it appears, but
is insensitive. To tell Empathy to do that, we'll need a Read_Only flag.

Any other XMPP dialects where the vCard is restricted, or where we fake up
vCard fields (do we do that on Facebook?), should get the same treatment.

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