Re: Making a phone call with GNOME

[Matthew Hodgson <matthew matrix org>]

On 19/03/2018 13:27, Simon McVittie wrote:
> There's no way we could have designed this correctly in Telepathy
> without being aware of protocol quirks like these, and indeed this
> API wasn't present in our first attempts (initially we could only
> represent one-to-one conversations and named chatrooms, like in XMPP
> and IRC).

Just to illustrate Simon's point further - Matrix doesn't currently have 
a first-class concept for 1:1 conversations; instead a 1:1 conversation 
is just a room which happens to have two people in it (although we do 
track whether the intent for that room is to use it for DMing a given 
user).  The reason is in part because it's incredibly common and useful 
to be able to invite 3rd parties into 1:1s - especially bots or 
assistants (human or machine)... and also to keep the API simpler and 
less special-casey.

M

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Matthew Hodgson
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