[Telepathy] Proposed spec change: user-defined server-side groups

Robert McQueen robert.mcqueen at collabora.co.uk
Thu Oct 19 08:58:22 PDT 2006


Simon McVittie wrote:
> Not a big deal really, but when a UI presents combo boxes or group
> icons or whatever as a quick way to select groups, it would be
> irritating in the following (albeit unusual) case:
> 
> * I remove the last member of a group
> * I immediately want to add someone to the now-empty group
> * but it's vanished, so I have to type in its name again
> 
> and it's as easy to keep the channel open in Gabble's memory as it is to
> synthesize a Close().

That's a reasonable enough use case to just leave it as is.

> The spec should probably *allow* the synthesized Close() in this case, though.

Nah, go for the consistency between implementations and make the spec
say one or the other.

> 	Simon

Regards,
Rob
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