169117 - IM buddy icon in ab card pane, msg header area improvements

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

now that we can "buddy" icon support in mail / ab, there's more we could do.

(Note, it works well out of the box with Netscape 7.x NIM, but if mozilla users 
put files in the right spot on disk, it works for them, too.)

some improvements:

1) work with standard win32 aim client, iChat, AOL aim client on mac, gaim, etc.

all these apps (I think) have a well known place on disk that buddy icons live.

2) for LDAP, display the jpegPhoto attribute instead

3) add X-Face support, and use that icon instead.

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

screenname support and the ability to assign images to ab entries was added for 
good reasons.

Even if mozilla doesn't ship an AIM client (I'm glad it doesn't), it still 
makes sense to have screennames in the AB.  AIM is widly popular.

Millions of people use AIM, and if I easily make our mail / ab more integrated 
with something so popular (note, all these integrations are all out of process, 
and do not require in process IM, like NIM), then I'll do it.

Now mozilla (not just 7.x) can start a AIM chat or IM message from my 
addressbook.  I can also show aim presence using the same http:// trick that 
webmail uses.  

You can also set an image for a given addressbook card, and it shows up when 
you get mail from them.

Mozilla can launch my stand alone aim app (AOL win32 aim, or iChat, or gaim 
assuming mac/linux implements the code in mozilla/uriloader that launches the 
default app when we don't handle a scheme).

Showing images (in the card pane or the message header area) is nothing new.  
One day when we add X-Face header support or jpegPhoto support to LDAP,  it 
will use the same hooks.

Comment 2

[Adam Rice]

See http://www.gnome.org/bounties/IM.html for a well-thought-out design for
this. There's also some neat demo animations. It's written for Evolution, but it
would apply equally well to Thunderbird. As far as I can tell, Evolution hasn't
implemented this yet, so Thunderbird could get out in front.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420