Bug 304828 - Start group chat from contact list
Summary: Start group chat from contact list
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: telepathy
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: contactlist (show other bugs)
Version: git-latest
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: Future
Assignee: Telepathy Bugs
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Reported: 2012-08-08 21:25 UTC by Daniele E. Domenichelli
Modified: 2013-11-13 10:17 UTC (History)
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kde: Decision-Required+

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Description Daniele E. Domenichelli 2012-08-08 21:25:19 UTC 
contact list should allow multiple selection of contacts, in order to start a group chat, conference call, etc. with the selected contacts
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2012-08-08 21:54:26 UTC 
This becomes non-trivial as you can select contacts from different accounts.
With the current limited system, you can't select contacts from a different account, and as such it will always work (or should).

If we implemented this we would end up with something that works sometimes but not others and I don't really like that.

I'm relegating it to "unconfirmed" until we have a plan. Can anyone think of a good solution?
Comment 2 Daniele E. Domenichelli 2012-08-08 22:13:37 UTC 
We could start by allowing to select all the users you want and showing as enabled only the supported actions for that set of contacts.
Comment 3 David Edmundson 2013-03-23 01:29:15 UTC 
Is this even possible?

Spec for createConferenceTextChat requires an initial channel.
Comment 4 David Edmundson 2013-11-13 10:17:59 UTC 
Given no-one has replied to comment #3 I'm not sure it's possible.

It's not worth considering until ad-hoc group chats work 100% first anyway.