[Telepathy] MissionControl's spec

[Xavier Claessens]

Le jeudi 25 octobre 2007 à 13:29 +0300, Naba Kumar a écrit :
> Hi Xavier,
> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 15:25 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > What's bad with having non-complete accounts? MC can just ignore them
> > when connecting... And RequestChannel can return "error: incomplete" for
> > example. If we give param flags in GetParameters() client can calculate
> > itself if an account is incomplete and do whatever it wants with it. I
> > think it's a more natural way.
> > 
> The accounts list is used by a lot of other components too (not just by
> the accounts setup UI). If you include incomplete accounts in that list,
> all of them need to filter the list. That's not convenient. And not to
> mention if there is no way of distinguishing them, filtering would be
> impossible.
> 
> Second, AccountCreated and AccountDeleted signals should be emitted only
> for usable accounts. Incomplete accounts are clearly unusable. if you
> emit the signals for them too, it will add extra overhead of filtering
> out noise for everyone connected. Nobody, beyond accounts setup UI, is
> actually interested in getting signals/list for incomplete accounts.

Ok, I'm convinced now, let's just make impossible to have non-complete
accounts :)

Xavier Claessens.