[Telepathy] [Bug 12465] Current avatars API is likely to generate too much DBus traffic

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12465





------- Comment #2 from mardy at users.sourceforge.net  2007-09-20 23:15 PST -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> I guess this is not a bug, actually if you make a RequestAvatars to block again
> it will turn to be a regression. You cannot handle NoReply

Isn't it possible to return an empty array, or 0-length avatars?

> and you probably
> want to other clients to have access of the avatar you just request because it
> is an expensive operation.

Avatars can be cached by the CM. Any API will be better than the current one,
because now when an avatar changes and you have three processes interested in
it, you will receive 3 AvatarRetrieved signals, each one waking up 3 processes.


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