David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: > security root wrote: >> how are u, i hope your fine >> i want asking about plus color in pidgin why don't supported and >> sound/webcam in msn > > Part of this may be that the necessary information isn't forthcoming > from Microsoft. They are hostile to third party clients, and, in fact > the current licence agreement for the official MSN Messenger client > purports to forbid you from using unapproved clients, like Pidgin.
Plus colors are third-party. They simply aren't implemented because
there has been no interest. There is a plugin (or core
functionality?) to strip the tags, but not to render colors in the
blist. This may require modifications of the blist itself, I am not
sure.
>> I hope that ths interested in the development of these properties as
>> much as possible
>
> I may be wrong, but my impression is that the core developers for Pidgin
> are not particularly interested in media support. That would make sense
> to me as they are very different technologies from instant messaging. I
> believe the exiting audio and video support only happened because of the
> Google Summer of Code, so you might be better off approaching Google to
> see if they will sponsor MSN support.
There has been work on this subject, I have no idea if/when it may be
finished.
You may wish to follow development before making comments like this.
Ethan
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