Bug 49443

Summary: reinstate tp_contact_is_self
Product: Telepathy Reporter: Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component: tp-glibAssignee: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: git master   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on: 22965, 49371    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Simon McVittie 2012-05-03 12:18:07 UTC 
tp_contact_is_self() would be nice to have, and Xavier implemented it.

However, I've just reverted it. It's subtle, because:

* on IRC, your globally-valid identifier can change

* on XMPP, your channel-specific identifier can change (admittedly,
  Gabble doesn't implement that)

* Bug #22965 means we don't actually track a channel-specific
  self-contact properly, so if Gabble did implement it changing,
  we'd get confused

We need to think about whether we want it before proceeding much further with Bug #49371, since implementing it (in a way that isn't frequently a lie) requires that all TpChannel objects track at least enough Group state to know which identifier is you.
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