annotate .todo @ 4835:b4e1be581795

[gaim-migrate @ 5160] some updates on things we've accomplished. at some point soon, i'm probly going to split this into files so that each dir has its own todo (esp the prpl dirs), and make use of ChipX86's work to allow todo files to be linked committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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    <title>
        Gaim TODO List
    </title>
    <note priority="high" time="1036029816">
        UI stuff
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1035996049">
            kicking someone in #name-extension causes a kick to display in #name as well and vice-versa
        </note>
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036028214">
            SEARCH FUNCTION FOR LOG FILES
        </note>
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036039364">
            choose a browser you don't have installed, click a link 2x, crash.
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036028245">
            fix crash when someone writes just as you close the chat window.
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036460162">
            show only text on buttons in im window
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1035996189">
            resizing text entry area below default doesn't work well.
            <note priority="medium" time="1035996380">
                some people report being unable to shrink it at all
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036028206">
            status report w/out being on own list
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036039877">
            right click on url gives browser choice (preference option)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036039928">
            make output of /list searchable
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036039939">
            option not to raise windows on event while away
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036039961">
            make entry widget height preference a relative size, that is it doesn't change the overall height of the window.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036039984">
            Only show one instance of each gaim_account at a time in the sign on dialog. reset the progress bar on disconnect instead of creating a new entry.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036040014">
            buddy pounce stuff
            <note priority="medium" time="1036040050">
                drop down list of buddies
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036040056">
                add service to list of accounts
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036040064">
                add chooser to sound
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036040080">
            fix buddy ticker resize bug. can't shrink it below default
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036210515">
            blist does not resize correctly on some platforms. this does not seem to be an issue on linux.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036337817">
            better gtk2-ified icons: maybe a send icon? review the ones we're using now. do they make sense?
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036337865">
            Do we still want 'import'?  If so, it should be under 'tools', not 'file'
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036361367">
            do not automatically resize windows that have been manually resized.
            <note priority="medium" time="1036361397">
                when a buddy icon is received
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036361407">
                when an im image is received
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036361428">
                when a new tab is created
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1035995742">
            buddy ticker stays around when you sign off - showing the buddies who were online
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1035995946">
            when auto-away (by idle time) is activated, away message window does not pop up.
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1035996444">
            there is a blank line in the blist for a couple seconds after someone signs off. [gtk2 bug with the deprecated gtklist?]
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036027907">
            block buddy option from right click menu in blist
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036346291">
            blist short cuts apparently not working
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036633142">
            save blist collapsation state
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1037467312">
            option to have both text and pictures on buttons in blist just like conversations currently allow
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036039472">
            option to have input box scroll instead of line wrap. input box only.
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036039515">
            copy grabs html as well as text.
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036040093">
            Transparency for GtkIMHtml
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="high" time="1036029923">
        Prefs stuff
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036764567">
            timestamps
            <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036764633">
                cannot disable timestamps
            </note>
            <note priority="high" time="1036764613">
                f2 does not toggle timestamps, preference for this missing
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036026944">
            add a way for a plugin to store/retrieve config values
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036027042">
            check to make sure gaimrc properly unescapes things like a " in a password as the .gaimrc file is read in. (reports indicate this may be a problem, esp. for \ and / )
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036028226">
            preference to set logfile path. (i think there is a patch to add this)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1037924557">
            add support for plugin key/value storage/retrieval
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036027262">
            add ircproxy option to proxy preferences.
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036027278">
            per-sn controls on how to compute idle time
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="high" time="1036030165">
        Core stuff
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036027053">
            PERMIT ONLY PEOPLE ON MY LIST TO IM ME IS NEEDED ASAP!!!!!!!!
            <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036027074">
                for yahoo
            </note>
            <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036027081">
                icq
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036027088">
                jabber
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036027095">
                msn
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036038343">
            Non-blocking gethostbyname() (is this fixed?)
            <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036038581">
                netbsd gethostbyname() problem
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036026995">
            documentation needed. (both online and not)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036038372">
            remember previous state better. both away, and allow start to invisible.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036038388">
            better privacy controls.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036038411">
            networking code rethink (libgnet?)
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036038360">
            Cancelable proxy_connect
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036038499">
            GPG Encryption of messages (gaim-e plugin included with gaim would satisfy this)
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="high" time="1036040208">
        away rethink
        <note priority="medium" time="1036040310">
            Away needs to be modified to include "show" and "status", i.e. you can have an away state, and an away message. This is exactly what ICQ does - you're "N/A" (show in Jabber) and your away message is "I'm gone." (status in Jabber). Since it only applies to ICQ and Jabber (and actually, currently only Jabber, since icqlib doesn't handle away messages yet), there should be some way of indicating that it can do both without breaking the others. My suggestion is to put "/" at the end of the "state", and when that's there, have it be a menu with all of the custom messages, e.g. in Jabber it'd return "Away/" as one of the states, and you'd see "Away" with a menu of all the away messages you have.
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="high" time="1036978099">
        gtk1-stable
        <note priority="medium" time="1036978230">
            with the option to not report idle times set, gaim does not come back from auto-away. this is most likely an issue for cvs also.
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036029726">
        WinGaim specific stuff
        <note priority="high" time="1035995058">
            wingaim: Gtk windows that appear when you hover over a button, and just stay there and never close until you click on them once
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1037028106">
            with 3 or more tabs, only the right most tab is closable. this appears to be a gtk for win32 problem
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1035995010">
            wingaim font issues
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1035995227">
            wingaim: sounds while away?
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1039544237">
            Write a seperate program that implements multiple-users.  It should encrypt/decrypt .gaimrc's based on a provided password, then launch gaim -f, with that .gaimrc.
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036030029">
        gaim-remote stuff
        <note priority="low" time="1035996470">
            GAIM-REMOTE: need a doc written up for gaim-remote on usage
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1035996488">
            GAIM-REMOTE: need to implement everything listed in gaim-remote --help
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036030336">
        In General (i don't know where this should be)
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1037658028">
            internal sounds not working now (is this fixed?)
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036027886">
            fix memory leaks
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036028233">
            gzip storage of logs
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036028352">
            throwaway away message (unsaved) for single account (vs. set all away)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036039588">
            person support
            <comment>
                luke is working on this
            </comment>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1037924676">
            add state saving and hook it to session management and user dialogs
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036027794">
            importing blist files
            <note priority="low" time="1036027810">
                licq
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1041997250">
            adding and removing buddies needs cleaned up. basically, add_buddy should be calling ui_add_buddy and serv_add_buddy as needed (require an extra arg to add_buddy to tell  it what needs done) and the various ways a buddy can come to be needing added should be calling some type of request_add_buddy (this would be part of both the core&lt;-&gt;ui interface and the core&lt;-&gt;prpl interface)
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1043803149">
            some way to ask about differences bettween server lists and local lists
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036030450">
        Plugins/Scripts
        <note priority="medium" time="1036028091">
            sean's plugin ideas
            <note priority="medium" time="1036028108">
                screenshot plugin
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036028113">
                xmms remote plugin
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036028123">
                statusimage plugin
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1037924600">
            docklet stuff
            <note priority="medium" time="1037924629">
                make the docklet support blinking status icons where appropriate (requires setting up a better GAIM_STOCK_ICON framework)
            </note>
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040388">
        OSCAR
        <note priority="high" time="1036040788">
            watch for aol's upcoming increased aim/icq merge
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036040405">
            AIM
            <note priority="high" time="1036040899">
                option to ignore chat room invitations. (this is something you could vary conceivably want to be done per account, so perhaps a protocol action would be best)
            </note>
            <note priority="low" time="1036040980">
                direct im
                <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036040919">
                    some way to close direct connect w/out closing convo.
                </note>
                <note priority="low" time="1036040970">
                    canceled direct im should still allow new attempt
                </note>
                <note priority="low" time="1036041084">
                    failed direct im attempt should allow new attempt some way to cancel an attempt that isn't happening
                </note>
            </note>
            <note priority="low" time="1036041105">
                Colors in Chat room are wrong (using Gold too much)
            </note>
            <note priority="verylow" time="1036041121">
                Voice Chat
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036040416">
            ICQ
            <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036041206">
                more privacy options
            </note>
            <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036041223">
                increased authorization support
                <note priority="medium" time="1038877503">
                    add info to dialog requesting autorization to allow you to check the info of the person who is requesting
                </note>
                <note priority="low" time="1038877526">
                    add option to add person who just added you to your own list
                </note>
            </note>
            <note priority="high" time="1036041199">
                color support
            </note>
            <note priority="high" time="1036041251">
                set status message and of course when gaim can set them, it needs to be able to get the ones it sets. (yes this is redundant. its a reflection of my current mood)
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036041165">
                Chat (this is different from aim chat)
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036041190">
                New User Registration
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036041215">
                more info support
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036041260">
                search for users
            </note>
            <note priority="low" time="1036041152">
                set the Nickname to be the self-alias
            </note>
            <note priority="verylow" time="1036041134">
                get info on offline user incorrectly says user is online.
            </note>
            <note priority="verylow" time="1036041174">
                File Transfer (do we really want this?)
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036040870">
            groups are read off server in a different order from winaim. this is a problem for people who use both and want their list to be in a certain order. along the same lines, because we don't read in the same order i'd bet, we don't write to the server in a way that would cause winaim to produce the ordering gaim has.
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040446">
        Y!M
        <note priority="high" time="1036041328">
            bug: won't allow me to delete myself from my list past sign on
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036041441">
            privacy options (block, unblock)
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036976065">
            offline messages get lost, esp. if more than 1 sent
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041334">
            Chat
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041356">
            color
            <note priority="high" time="1036041423">
                &lt;fade&gt; tags need parsed.
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041374">
            show idle time on blist
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041385">
            display profile
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041395">
            make away message display like that of aim/icq/jabber
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041400">
            auto reply on away
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036041308">
            web cam support
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036041341">
            File Transfer (do we really want this?)
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036041449">
            voice chat
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040668">
        IRC
        <note priority="high" time="1036041633">
            option to change nick does not always work right: because gaim continues to compare on the original nick
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036041714">
            fix segfault on attempted send after having been /remove'ed (has this been fixed?)
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036041787">
            no list of people on /join
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1037675268">
            remember /ignore list in privacy section
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041658">
            Error 421, unknown command when going away. sometimes. (has to do with html in away messages?)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041669">
            /ban, /kickban
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041674">
            /names
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041695">
            CTCP version generates an autoreply when person is away or idle. the error box used by it also binds the focus (like all other error popups). i'm not sure there is a way around this second issue. (fixed?)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041722">
            multi word remove messages
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041800">
            display target of +b and +q (done)?
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1040268884">
            nick change on signon for in use nick might be broken -- might cause no windows to be created on /join
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036041731">
            auto reply to /msg on away
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040675">
        MSN
        <note priority="high" time="1036042035">
            bug: some people receive blank messages. clicking to ignore font faces font when the requested font isn't found.
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036042159">
            bug: doesn't save blist to file on read from server as this could be introducing new people, esp. if there is no existing file, it should
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036982924">
            group support
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036041943">
            spaces in friendly names not always unescaped for display, and so displaying as %20 (this may be fixed)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042128">
            Majortool says to tell sean about "already in opposite list" errors are still happening, now whenever you start gaim. follow from prior conversation. javabsp|away: the (C) and (R) works (23:02:54) MajorTool: LSchiere: yeah what javabsp|away is talking about but its certain ones
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042246">
            store group name that buddy is in on server
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042266">
            set the friendly name to be the self alias
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042573">
            typing notification in group chats
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042588">
            group chat support
            <note priority="medium" time="1036042601">
                start chat
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036042611">
                better support in general
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042684">
            font face and color send support
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042780">
            International friendly name support
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036042939">
            Need some way of indicating "invite" in IM window
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036043086">
            auto reply on away
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036043093">
            people search function.
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036042948">
            File Transfer (do we really want this?)
            <comment>
                ChipX86 is working on this
            </comment>
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036043099">
            voice chat
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040682">
        Jabber
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1037475141">
            remove the defaultation to @jabber.org as this increases the level of confusion associated with the need to use user@server formats with jabber
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036043427">
            problem seeing buddies with long blist?
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1036043971">
            make password change take effect w/out restart
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1037635621">
            some way to figure out which resource you are talking to
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044198">
            Browsing
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044216">
            Bug: Opening/closing/reopening conferences (to the same "room"?) and changing conf. room nicks results in wrong nick reappearing (to other clients) and crash on close of conference dialog.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044416">
            Server Admin operations (messages, etc.)
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044448">
            Add option for user info to be published or not in JUD.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044509">
            Ability to "IM" conference room "buddies"
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044563">
            Some way to see/list roster items to which you have no subscription yourself?  Some way to delete them or subscribe to them if you want?
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044571">
            Show self on buddylist
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044583">
            Delete server account.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036044871">
            Messaging an "Away" Jabber user doesn't get an away message back?
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036045649">
            Permit/Deny buddy support.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036046080">
            List of users on Jabber server?
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036046396">
            show idle time on blist
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036046413">
            a populate roster from local blist. most useful if you want to migrate a blist from one account to another, also useful if something freaky happens and the server blist is lost.
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036046422">
            conferencing needs straightening out in general
            <note priority="medium" time="1036046528">
                some s2s issues, maybe
            </note>
            <note priority="medium" time="1036046534">
                join room 2x issues, maybe
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1037892911">
            info
            <note priority="medium" time="1037893000">
                formatted. enhancement-request so that the birthday field in the setinfo form would split up into relevant fields allowing for a strict syntax (like year--month--day or so, perhaps even dropdown menus)
            </note>
            <note priority="low" time="1037890968">
                have set info pre-fill values from the server when no local vcard exists. this will help people migrating to gaim
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1043185801">
            method to re-request authorization
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036046388">
            SSL support (priority 4 because its not really doable right now)
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1038267843">
            offline messages should have full timestamp, i.e. should show date not just time
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036043981">
            *sigh* file transfer (do we really need/want this?)
            <comment>
                faceprint is working on this
            </comment>
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036044192">
            Jabber Transports (having them show up on the buddy list should be fairly easy; having an appropriate right-click menu for them should also be somewhat easy. Providing a UI for adding transports should be rather difficult.)
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040693">
        Gadu-Gadu
        <note priority="medium" time="1036046603">
            New User Registration
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036046614">
            There's probably 100 other things but since I've hardly used the Windows client before I'm not sure what any of them are
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040701">
        Napster
        <note priority="high" time="1036046718">
            remove this protocol?
        </note>
        <note priority="high" time="1043186758">
            merge in sofar's patch to revive this prpl?
        </note>
        <note priority="medium" time="1036046712">
            New User Registration
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036046725">
            File Transfer (do we really want this?)
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="medium" time="1036040706">
        Zephyr
        <note priority="veryhigh" time="1036046748">
            God help us.
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="low" time="1036030063">
        i18n/portability stuff
        <note priority="medium" time="1036028041">
            sounds/Makefile needs to use host CC, not target (that's the only part that seems broken for cross-compiling --Disconnect)
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1035996506">
            i18n: icq i18n
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1035996519">
            i18n: info dialog
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="verylow" time="1036026433">
        DISCUSSION: entries here are things i'm not sure are desirable or doable.
        <note priority="medium" time="1043803233">
            make blist.xml and/or .gaim as configureable as .gaimrc
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036026508">
            "console beep" sound option should use different frequency beeps for different events, or at least give some way to allow this behavior.
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036026529">
            do we really need some of the preferences? (Ignore TIK messages. Does anyone use that method of retrieving Away messages anymore? no, but it is small and it would be a piece of history lost ;-))
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036026609">
            ximian serial numbers in rpms cause... problems.
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036026691">
            msn auth expires (better, but still not perfect)
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036026746">
            gaim should detect if message is sent and only log on success for protocols capable of offline messaging, this would always log, but aim messages would only be logged if sent to an online person. this would essentially entail making logging dependent on the return status of the serv send msg command.
        </note>
        <note priority="low" time="1036026818">
            the privacy dialog has five different options now.  this looks rather ugly.  When we redesign the dialog, perhaps we should change the privacy setting to a combobox?
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036026484">
            protocol action to log into webmail for those that support such (aim, yahoo, msn)  maybe a right-click option to send to user(yahoo, msn)
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036026538">
            show alias in list of people in chat
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036026552">
            tab complete to alias, translate to nick on send for chat
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036026575">
            timestamp on debug messages?
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036026597">
            sorting of conversation tabs, if the ordering of left-to-right order by opening isn't good enough for you
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036026772">
            option to disable close for x seconds after receive im. this would short circuit missing messages as you close the window. make it an option that's off by default.
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036026845">
            options on key bindings. (different window managers map different things).
            <note priority="verylow" time="1036026870">
                make the control key switchable with the alt key or similar)
            </note>
            <note priority="verylow" time="1036026881">
                maybe make control/alt+arrow optionally replace control+bracket (since control-pageup and control-pagedown work, i'm inclined not to do this)
            </note>
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036028335">
            make the option to have escape close a window be global (error messages, account editor, etc.)
        </note>
    </note>
    <note priority="verylow" time="1036027143">
        autotools/gettext
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036027169">
            automake 1.4 support bug, non-root users can't get gaim to compile by putting the gtk2 and glib2 m4 files in the m4 dir
        </note>
        <note priority="verylow" time="1036027184">
            automake 1.[56] support not perfect.
        </note>
    </note>
</todo>