Bug 26823

Summary:	detect Facebook Chat and suppress non-working functionality?
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component:	gabble	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	devurandom, rishi.is, xclaesse
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Simon McVittie 2010-03-01 13:06:51 UTC

After ContactInfo is merged, it would be nice to detect the Facebook XMPP server, and on connections to that server, clear the SupportedFields and the Can_Set bit.

Ideally we'd also do the same for Aliasing and Avatars, but those interfaces don't have any concept of inability to set your own. For Avatars we could fake it with an empty set of supported MIME types, perhaps?

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2010-03-22 07:39:43 UTC

Xavier points out that this also affects ContactList channels, which are rather more important (on Facebook Chat, the roster is read-only via XMPP).

One potential problem with putting in a special case that forcibly suppresses UI for write operations (contact lists, vCards, etc.) is that if/when Facebook upgrade their server to allow write operations, Telepathy UIs will keep disallowing them (until Gabble is patched again).

Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-03-29 04:55:43 UTC

Another one: we should claim to support room listing on Facebook connection as we can't use it anyway.

Comment 3 Xavier Claessens 2011-03-29 05:01:40 UTC

Note that profile could part of this job at least: http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/service-profile-v1. Those profiles lists unsuported channel classes for the account.

Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-01-31 02:32:11 UTC

I think the right way to do this is to extend XMPP if needed and ask Facebook to properly advertise what they (don't) support.

So we have at least:

- Not being able to set our own vCard: bug #45403

- Not being able to set our own alias

- Not being able to set our own avatar

- Not being able to modify the roster

- Not being able to list rooms or even join a chat room.

Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-01-31 02:38:19 UTC

- Only support available and away presence: bug #39252

Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-03-09 03:20:14 UTC

Also, Aliasing.Connection_Alias_Flags should not have the User_Set flag as we actually can't assign an alias to our contacts.

Comment 7 Xavier Claessens 2012-04-19 02:18:28 UTC

Note that MSN-XMPP is the same as facebook regarding server caps.

Comment 8 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 19:22:14 UTC

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