[Telepathy] Acknowledging Messages in an Observer

[David Edmundson]

Seems I'm writing a patch for TpQt. Andrunko gave me a bit of help in
doing this on IRC.

I've managed to implement it directly using the low level bindings and
some horrific hacks. So far everything is going great except for one
issue.

I've written code that when you press a button in the plasmoid it
delegates. Works perfectly, the main text-ui launches gets a new tab
with the chat. However, my plasmoid still has a valid channel and as
it thinks it's a handler so will carry on happily acking messages
whenever it wants to.

1) Is it up to the client code to throw away its references to the
text channel after it successfully delegates?

2) Can the client keep the channel, but know to effectively act like
an observer? If so is there any way to find out if a channel is being
handled by our application or not?

I ask because after I call delegateChannels when I browse my original
handler in dbusviewer Client.Handler/HandledChannels still seems to
have the original channel. This seems wrong?

Also when I delegateChannels can I pass hints?
In the process of this contact list -> plasmoid -> textUI approach any
hints now get lost. We use a special KDE channel hint to work round a
kwin "bug", and now that's not working. It seems limiting to not be
able to pass them.

Thanks for all your help so far!

Dave