support sending a roster item (eg. contact) to another contact (XEP-0144)

[nk]

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0093.html tkabber has it

[nk]

this is the new one http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0144.html

[Marco d'Itri]

The obvious UI for this is drag and drop, this is how gabber used to implement this feature.

[asterix]

DND to a chat window, because gajim uses DND in roster to move comtact to another group.

[Marco d'Itri]

Yes, this is how gabber used to work too.

[anonymous]

"DND to a chat window, because gajim uses DND in roster to move comtact to another group."

Now that Gajim has a DND menu for dragging in the roster, would it be viable to add another menu option?

[mibus@…]

I've just written a patch that supports sending a contact as a 'add'. I've

removed the automatic metacontact-on-drop so you always get the menu option. (Drag one contact onto another in the roster window).

There are two things missing, (1) receiving a contact and adding it, and (2) doing a disco first to make sure the receiver supports rosterx. (That said, I'm adding a body tag to the message so a client not supporting it is still useful as a receiver).

[mibus@…]

rosterx sending patch

[mibus@…]

I've just looked over the file transfer code and can't see where it does a

disco before trying. Does it try? Where?

If not, then what will it take for this patch to get in to 0.11 or 0.12? Even without a dialog to automatically add a contact to the roster when receving the roster exchange item, it's still useful.

[asterix]

indeed we don't do disco for FT, so we could add this patch, but if we are

able to send contacts, we should also be able to receive some. It's weird to do only half. If we have time, we'll do it for 0.11, but not sure

[DoomHammer]

This JEP has been superseded by XEP-0144

[misc]

Except the part about caps ( the line about ftrans etc), the first patch ( about sending ) seems ok to me.

For the secund one ( about receiving ), wouldn't it be cleaner to use a glade file ?

[steve-e]

Don't forget to fix this issue #3177, too.

[roidelapluie]

Not tested yet