Re: ThreePointOne: Contacts

[Travis Reitter <travis reitter collabora co uk>]

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 10:54 +0100, Will Thompson wrote:
> On 19/04/11 10:39, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 09:53 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> >> Empathy uses the “text/individual-id” and “text/persona-id” drag targets
> >> for dragging and dropping folks individuals and personas.
> > 
> > Shouldn't you be using x-something for nonstandard types like these?
> > Anyway, we'd need to add corresponding support to evolution too. Also, i
> > think the current evolution contacts dialog dnds a vcard, which seems
> > like a good thing to do too.
> 
> Pidgin supports dragging and dropping application/x-im-contact and
> text/x-vcard.
> 
> Obviously it's unlikely that anyone will ever dnd between Pidgin and
> Empathy, but it would be nice if Empathy supported these MIME types for
> interoperability with hypothetical other apps that speak these formats.
> (Perhaps Evo already understands both? I can't think where else
> x-im-contact would be used.)

If we're going to support dnd by vCard, we'll need to support vCard
generation in Folks. We've intentionally structured
FolksPersona/FolksIndividual to make that fairly easy, but it hasn't
been implemented yet.

-Travis