On 30.07.2010 14:33, Jonny Lamb wrote: > 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. > That sounds like a gateway to me for which a "sms" type is already registered.
> 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 >
