Re: [Ekiga-list] Text display problem with Pidgin user

[Dave Koelmeyer <davekoelmeyer me com>]

On 14/01/11 10:22 AM, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> On 07/01/11 15:13, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> > On 02 Dec, 2010,at 07:18 AM, Anthony Papillion <papillion gmail com> 
> > wrote:
> > > > > Just signed up for an Ekiga account and downloaded the softphone.
> > > > > Mostly, I use it for SIP but today I got a text message from another
> > > > > user who was using the Pidgin client to connect to the network. For
> > > > > some reason, his entire message was wrapped in XML. The text was 
> > > > > there
> > > > > but I could see the entire XML message in my chat window.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this a configuration error on my end? A problem with Pidgin? What
> > > > > can I do to fix this?
> > > > Hello Everyone,
> > On 3/12/10 06:44 PM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote:
> > > > Hi Anthony,
> > > >
> > > > Is it anything similar to this?
> > > >
> > > > http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/docs/EkigaTestTextChat.png
> > > >
> > > > I get this when a user text chats me from SIP Communicator 1.0 alpha
> > > > 6 on Mac OS X, to Ekiga 3.2.7 on OpenIndiana.
> >
> > Anthony - not sure if you are indeed seeing the same thing as me, but I
> > have made an enquiry on the SIP Communicator users list, and received
> > this response:
> >
> > "That is is-composing payload, it signals to the client that the remote
> > party is typing a message, Ekiga should check for this payload type and
> > render some visual indication for this instead of displaying this
> > verbatim as a text message."
> >
> >
> > Ekiga devs, could it be that Ekiga does not handle is-composing payload
> > at all, while SIP Communicator and Pidgin do?
>
> Ekiga does not have such feature.  Please make a bug report and attach 
> the image.  I think it is simple (feasible, does not need high 
> programming skills) to program it, but it can take a bit of time.
>
> But I am not quite fond about it.  Injecting small packets in the 
> network only to tell the other person that you are writing means 
> network usage for not much information...

Done - bug report is here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640393

Notification that the remote party is typing a text message is a 
nice-to-have in an ideal world, but it's certainly not IMHO critical, 
and I could happily use Ekiga without it. I'm not a developer, but if 
adapting Ekiga to simply drop the is-composing code is the easiest way 
to resolve this, then that would get a +1 from me :)

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