[Telepathy] Avatar interface proposal

[Raphael Slinckx]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:24 -0300, Andre Magalhaes wrote:
> >
> > Also, does anyone have any insight about how other protocols work, do
> > they make the same mistake as jabber, or do they work correctly ?
> > Maybe it will be actually more difficult to bend correctly-behaving
> > protocols to the twisted xmpp behavior leaked in the spec ?
> That is one approach, let the connection manager do the hard work, and
> emit the AvatarUpdated signal only when the avatar really changed,
> even between sessions. But this would require the connection manager
> to have write access to the disk, in order to store the avatar images,
> which IMHO i don't think it's a good idea.

The connection manager doesn't have to store the image data, it can just
store the hash or whatever short value, and download the data when
needed (before emitting AvatarUpdated). If i follow correctly the
discussion..

raf