Feature Requests item #917091, was opened at 2004-03-16 00:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=917091&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 3 Private: No Submitted By: Eugene Talagrand (zemoo) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Gaim Log format details Initial Comment: In the log files for a conversation, not enough information is kept: Suppose X is talking to Y, the format is: (00:40:03) X: what time? (00:40:59) Y: i dont know (00:41:05) Y: should I call? But then, suppose X has a conversation with Z, such as: (00:33:36) X: cramming hard? (00:33:41) Z: nope (00:34:11) Z: never If X wants to communicate this conversation with Y, then X copies and pastes the converstation with Z into the conversation with Y, which can cause some confusion in the log file. This is what is logged: (00:40:03) X: what time? (00:40:59) Y: i dont know 00:44:28) X: (00:33:36) X: cramming hard? (00:33:41) Z: nope (00:34:11) Z: never It looks like Z is participating in the conversation, which is not the case. There is no way to tell that Z is part of the text of the message and not a "control statement" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-17 15:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ka-Hing Cheung (bsponline) Date: 2004-03-17 11:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=159910 Or... for people who want the log files to be within a sane size, especially when all the logs were in one file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-03-16 12:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 remember, the plain text logging exists pimarily at the request of users who wanted to view and search logs with traditional unix text tools, more, less, grep, so on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-03-16 12:17 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 no, new lines are converted to \n because that is what users want. when someone hits shift-enter in the conversation to create a multi-line message, people expect the log to reflect that, and people logging without html expect it to reflect that when not using gaim's internal log viewwer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Eugene Talagrand (zemoo) Date: 2004-03-16 04:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=593021 How about escaping newlines in the log file? I noticed this because I was writing a small tool to manipulate the log files. Newlines could be encoded with <br> or something, even if strip HTML is on, and then the log file viewer and the history plugin could be updated to parse this. I can volunteer to do this change if you would be willing to accept the changes? (Or any other newline escaping mechanism?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-03-16 00:30 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 and how would you propose this be solved? personally i don't get confused because i know what log i'm looking at but... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=917091&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
