Yahoo! Japan as a separate PRPL

[Mark Doliner]

Right now we have a "Yahoo Japan" checkbox on the advanced tab of the
account editor when modifying a Yahoo account.  Yahoo and Yahoo Japan
are separate networks that just happen to use the same protocol.  And
I've realized that it is possible to have the same username on each
network, and the usernames are totally independent accounts with
separate buddy lists.  For anyone who wants to try this, note that you
might have to have to create the Yahoo Japan account first (I don't
remember for sure).

And so it kind of makes sense to register a separate PRPL for Yahoo
Japan.  This way people with the same account on each IM network can
have both accounts signed on in Pidgin, and can have their chatlogs
separate, separate buddy list, etc.

How do people feel about this?  It would be similar to what we do with
oscar, where we call PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() once for AIM and once for
ICQ.

-Mark

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[Ka-Hing Cheung-3]

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 18:05 -0700, Mark Doliner wrote:

> Right now we have a "Yahoo Japan" checkbox on the advanced tab of the
> account editor when modifying a Yahoo account.  Yahoo and Yahoo Japan
> are separate networks that just happen to use the same protocol.  And
> I've realized that it is possible to have the same username on each
> network, and the usernames are totally independent accounts with
> separate buddy lists.  For anyone who wants to try this, note that you
> might have to have to create the Yahoo Japan account first (I don't
> remember for sure).
>
> And so it kind of makes sense to register a separate PRPL for Yahoo
> Japan.  This way people with the same account on each IM network can
> have both accounts signed on in Pidgin, and can have their chatlogs
> separate, separate buddy list, etc.
>
> How do people feel about this?  It would be similar to what we do with
> oscar, where we call PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() once for AIM and once for
> ICQ.
>

Sounds like a good idea.

-khc


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[John Bailey-2]

Mark Doliner wrote:
> For anyone who wants to try this, note that you
> might have to have to create the Yahoo Japan account first (I don't
> remember for sure).

Yes, you do have to create the account.  It's an absolute pain if you can't read
Japanese.  If you can't read it, having a friend who can and can help you would
be a huge help.  I stumbled through the process with babelfish when I created my
account.

> And so it kind of makes sense to register a separate PRPL for Yahoo
> Japan.  This way people with the same account on each IM network can
> have both accounts signed on in Pidgin, and can have their chatlogs
> separate, separate buddy list, etc.

Having a separate prpl should improve things for other UI's as well.  Obviously,
though, we need a migration path from the account preference to a new prpl ID,
and we need a simple way to handle (YahooData *)yd->jp throughout, as this is
what's used internally to differentiate the account as a Yahoo Japan account.

> How do people feel about this?  It would be similar to what we do with
> oscar, where we call PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() once for AIM and once for
> ICQ.

I had actually thought about doing this once before, whether anyone liked it or
not.  It *does* make a lot more sense, and it would make the advanced tab of the
account editor a LOT simpler--there is FAR too much crap on that page for a
single prpl as it is now.

I'm definitely in favor of doing this (maybe for 2.6.0?).  Additionally, I
propose that we use prpl-yahoojp for the ID.

Johjn



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[Tim Ringenbach-5]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Mark Doliner <mark@...> wrote:

How do people feel about this?  It would be similar to what we do with
oscar, where we call PURPLE_INIT_PLUGIN() once for AIM and once for
ICQ.

Sounds good to me.

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