[Resending; I attached the patch before but at 80KB it was too big for the
mailing list to accept. Contact me if you want a copy of my work-in-progress
patch.]
I've spent a couple days rewriting the pidgin-otr-3.2.0 plugin to only use
libpurple, so that the plugin will work with finch. I've just now gotten
something running, so I thought I'd post a snapshot of my changes to get some
early feedback. You'll also need the latest finch source with my patch here
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14818
otherwise the conversation menu won't be installed.
I've been trying to preserve the UI abstraction of the original code, but it's
pretty awkward. I believe ultimately the abstraction could be removed, since
the libpurple version will work in both finch and pidgin. (Even if its UI is
not as sophisticated as the original pidgin code...)
The two sections that are still unimplemented are management of buddies'
fingerprints, and authentication of buddies.
For the latter, I believe I'm just going to add another sub-menu to the
conversation menu, with three choices "Secret Question" (SMP), "Shared
Secret", and "Fingerprint" since I don't think I can update a dialog in
realtime while changing a combo box like the pidgin/GTK code does.
For the fingerprint list I believe the purple_notify_searchresults() API will
let me create the multi-column list of fingerprint info, and the appropriate
action buttons to go with.
Going with the generic libpurple code sacrifices some of the widgets of the
pidgin UI. Personally I can live with that, especially since I almost always
use Finch anyway.
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-- Howard Chu
CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
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