[Telepathy] Avatar interface proposal

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi all,

On 6/7/06, Rob Taylor <robtaylor at floopily.org> wrote:

The image *does not* have to be base64 encoded, you can send binary
blobs over DBus as an array of bytes. base64 encoding just wastes time,
memory and power ;)

This is not that simple, send
base64 via dbus is not a good ideia, but connection managers will
receive it anyway,
decode it and
send it over dbus. This will require some buffers and in a big contact
list it is a big chance to have memory leaks or crashs. So maybe its a
better idea to sent the raw data
and the encode type than application will know how to
decode it. Also would be good to think on this funcion as a generic
file transfer too.
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