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[gaim-migrate @ 10427] " When joining a jabber conference many jabber servers send a recap of the last 20 or so messages. If you have sounds enabled, this will result in either 20 sounds in row, or worse if mixing is available, a horrible mix of 20 overlapping sounds. These recap messages can be identifed be the presence of the "jabber:x:delay". This patch identifies delayed messages, passes that information through flags from the prpl to the core, and then on to the gui. Detailed changes: Add GAIM_MESSAGE_DELAYED to GaimMessageFlags to indicate a delayed message. Change gtkconv.c to not play sounds when either GAIM_MESSAGE_DELAYED or GAIM_MESSAGE_SYSTEM are set. Add GaimConvChatFlags, parallel to GaimConvImFlags, to pass flags from protocols to core. Currently contains two flags: GAIM_CONV_CHAT_WHISPER GAIM_CONV_CHAT_DELAYED Change fourth arg of serv_got_chat_in() from "int whisper" to "GaimConvChatFlags chatflags". Change jabber prpl to set delayed flag when the "jabber:x:delay" element is present. Change toc protocol since it uses the whisper flag." --Nathan Fredrickson Date: 2004-07-24 00:49 Sender: marv_sfAccepting Donations Logged In: YES user_id=790708 I'm not sure I like naming the flags "DELAYED". I mean that's okay inside jabber since that's what the jabber protocol refers to it as, but for the the GAIM_*_DELAYED flags, I think they should be named something else. I thought about NOSOUND, but I decided that was wrong, because the flag should say what kind of message it is, not what to do with it, that's up to the UI to decide. What's up with not playing sounds on GAIM_MESSAGE_SYSTEM? This sounds unrelated to this. Are there times when we want to play sounds on system messages? Date: 2004-07-24 09:13 Sender: noif Logged In: YES user_id=365548 I purposely did not use a name that implied what the UI should do with the flag. The only characteristic that makes these messages unique is that they've been stored in the server for some period of time and are not current. I'm open to a better flag name than "DELAYED"... I thought about "RECAP", but that seemed less generalized than "DELAYED". As for not playing sounds on GAIM_MESSAGE_SYSTEM, that can be removed if it's controversial. I think I slipped that in since the setting of the topic was still playing a sound every time you joined a jabber conference. I think we can change the flag name ourselves if something else is better. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

The Penguin

by Rob Flynn <[e-mail]>
   and
   Jeramey Crawford <[e-mail]>


Once upon a term'nal dreary, while I hack'ed, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten code--
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a beeping,
As of some one gently feeping, feeping using damn talk mode.
"'Tis some hacker," I muttered, "beeping using damn talk mode--
                          Only this. I hate talk mode."

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak semester,
And college life wrought its terror as the school year became a bore.
Eagerly I wished for privledges;--higher access I sought to borrow
For my term'nal, unceasing sorrow--sorrow for a file called core--
For the rare and radiant files of .c  the coders call the core--
                           Access Denied.  Chown me more.

"Open Source," did all mutter, when, with very little flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Penguin of the saintly days of yore.
Quite a bit obese was he; having eaten lots of fish had he,
But, by deign of Finnish programmer, he sat in the middle of my floor--
Looking upon my dusty term'nal in the middle of my floor--
                           Came, and sat, and nothing more.

Then the tubby bird beguiling my sad code into shining,
By the free and open decorum of the message that it bore,
"Though thy term'nal be dusty and slow," he said, "Linux be not craven!"
And thus I installed a new OS far from the proprietary shore--
The kernel code open but documentation lacking on this shore.
                           Quoth the Penguin, "pipe grep more!"

Much I marvelled this rotund fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning--little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help believing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird in the middle of his floor--
Bird or beast sitting in the middle of his cluttered floor,
                           With such instructions as "pipe grep more."

But the Penguin, sitting lonely in that cluttered floor, spoke only
Those words, as if its soul in that instruction he did outpour.
Nothing more did he need utter; understood did I among that clutter--
Understood his command as I could scarcely do a few moments before--
I typed as furious as was willed me, understanding just a minute before.
                           Again the bird said "pipe grep more!"

"Amazing!" said I, "Penguin we will conquor the world if you will!
By the Network that interconnects us--by that Finn we both adore--
We'll take this very world by storm!" For now grasped I what he'd meant,
The thing I do while searching /usr/doc/* for that wond'rous lore--
Those compendiums of plaintext documentation and descriptive lore.
                           Quoth the Penguin, "pipe grep more!"

And the Penguin, never waddling, still is sitting, still is sitting
In the middle of my room and still very cluttered floor;
And his eyes have all the seeming of the free beer I am drinking
And the term'nal-light o'er him glowing throws his shadows on the floor;
And this OS from out the shadows that is pow'ring my term'nal on the floor
                            Shall be dominating--"Pipe grep more!"