Hi.
In Telepathy[0] we're exposing the client type of a contact over D-Bus
using a new connection interface[1] which is hot off the press. The
details are unimportant here, but we've chosen to use the list of
client types in the Service Discovery Identities registry[2].
In our travels, we've found two futher types which are useful to us,
and I can't imagine they wouldn't be useful to XMPP. Perhaps you would
consider adding them?
1. game: MSN has an Xbox client type. I don't think it is too unlikely
for your favourite console to grow an XMPP client, do you? I
certainly wouldn't want to rule it out!
2. sms: at least MSN and Yahoo also have a feature which means that
you can add phone numbers to your contact list. They appear as
contacts in your contact list but are not actually running IM
clients, and any messages sent to these contacts will be sent via
SMS.
So, what do you think? I've attached a diff to the
disco-categories.xml document just to make things super easy.
Cheers,
0. http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
1.
http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec-snapshot/Connection_Interface_Client_Types.html
2. http://xmpp.org/registrar/disco-categories.html#client
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Jonny Lamb, UK
[email protected]
--- disco-categories.xml.old 2010-07-30 13:24:27.000000000 +0100
+++ disco-categories.xml 2010-07-30 13:26:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@
<doc>N/A</doc>
</type>
<type>
+ <name>game</name>
+ <desc>A client running on a games console</desc>
+ <doc>N/A</doc>
+ </type>
+ <type>
<name>handheld</name>
<desc>A client running on a PDA, RIM device, or other handheld</desc>
<doc>N/A</doc>
@@ -111,6 +116,11 @@
<doc>N/A</doc>
</type>
<type>
+ <name>sms</name>
+ <desc>A client who is not actually using instant messaging client but messages sent to this contact will be delivered as SMSs</desc>
+ <doc>N/A</doc>
+ </type>
+ <type>
<name>web</name>
<desc>A client operated from within a web browser</desc>
<doc>N/A</doc>
