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[gaim-migrate @ 12577] Last night it was requested that we try to enumerate some of the short range goals, and esp. the 2.0.0 blockers. this is my first attempt at this. please feel free to edit it where I am inaccurate or incomplete. This isn't so much a traditional todo, as I included some notes on how things should work or what ideas have been proposed. I tried to include vim folding stuff, but I'm not much used to that. I also used tabs to format. please don't start replacing them with all spaces ;-) committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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* conversation api {{{
	* need to handle: {{{
		* unnamed chats
		* chats with the same name as a buddy
		* jabber Messages (one off messages vrs a conversation with a backlog)
		* multiple conversations with a single buddy (jabber, with thread tag)
		* bugs
	}}}
	* notes: {{{
		* (12:58:39) Robot101: user list always|auto|never
		* topic only where supported by the protocol
		* how do we log this? {{{
			* rlaager's proposal: {{{
				* the goal of logging is to be able to find something again.
				* you expect to see the logs for a person IFF they are in that conversation
				* you don't really need to see the log of a chat before or after said person joined it
					*if you did, you'd be looking at some other person(s)'s log
				* so:
					* each conversation has 1 or more logs associated with it.
					* when someone joins, a new log is opened to log everything that happens in the
					  conversation, but to that person's logs.
					* when someone parts, that one persons' log is closed
					* this causes some duplication, the way to avoid this would be to close everyone's
					  log on a join/part and use a new file.  we could then use links of some sort (hard
					  or soft) to "put" that one file in each user's directory.  but this would
					  needlessly split the logs of someone who had been there all along.  I think this
					  duplication is acceptable.
					* this would not solve the problem of chats with the same name as a buddy.
			}}}
		}}}
	}}}
}}}
* buddy list {{{
	* we have not committed any gobjectification, so this is not a blocker for 2.0.0 until we do.
		* if we do, it is only a blocker to the extent that gaim needs to run.  That is, we do not
		  *necessarily* have to gobjectifiy everything as long as we preserve functionality.
		* That being said, my understanding of the signals mess says that it is probly more work to
		  try to do this in stages than to start it or not start it.
	* This would require some sort of signal aggregation, as gobject signals are unique to the instance.
		* one way to do this would be to emit the signals from a non-descript buddy object.  this would
		  most closely mimic the current functionality
		* a second way would be to actually try to aggregate them in some way. I really don't know how
		  possible this is, but it would allow us to do things like set a pounce on everyone in a group
		  or define sounds on a per-group basis.
		* we could look at replacing the UI ops with signals/call backs
	* bugs
}}}
* build targets {{{
  * this is not a blocker
  * we need build targets for libgaim, we need to test them, and make sure they work.
  * we ought to use our own build targets to build the executable itself.
  * due to the limitations of cvs, this cannot accompany moving files to other directories at this time.
}}}
* status {{{
	* Sean's segment of the UI needs to be finished.  We need to have support for the (new) default case
	  of one global status at all times.  we currently do not, unless that happens to be "online/present"
	* Tim's modifications to Sean's ui should be included to allow exceptions. refer to gaim-devel
	  archives for this.
}}}
* account editor {{{
	* this is not a blocker for 2.0.0
	* account editor is not intuitive, users do not find it.
	* Luke: my temptation is to get rid of this entirely, in favor of deryni's account menu. {{{
		* at this point, tools->accounts is only used for add/delete account, modify account, and
		  enable account.
		* most users do not have the 15+ accounts that some gaim developers do. a menu scales well for
		  anything from 2 to n, n "small" accounts.
		* this would allow ready access to the buddy icon stuff, and account actions could go here
		* status is handled as per the new api, status stuff need not go here beyond enabled.
		* the account modify dialog is already too big.  this would let us split it, for instance
		  buddy icon need not be in it this way.  Similarly, alias need not be in it.
	}}}
}}}
* Privacy {{{
	* this is not a blocker for 2.0.0
	* Privacy sucks. it doesn't handle many of the protocols in a way that users understand. notably
	  msn, but also yahoo, jabber, and icq.
	* We want to sync to the server as much as possible, entirely local-only privacy is not an option
	  except on protocols like irc that have no server-side.
	* We want to be as consistent across protocols as possible.  this will require renaming things on
	  some protocols.
	* Bleeter suggests that we create a privacy.xml, remove privacy from blist.xml.  He suggests
	  that each protocol define certain capabilities & defaults, with accounts.xml holding exceptions
	  to the defaults.
}}}