[OTR-dev] Conversion of unencrypted messages to system-messages

[Michael Zanetti]

Hi,

its me again. I decided to divide my requests into different mails to keep the 
discussions sorted.

The current implementation of kopete's otr plugin uses a message type called 
"Internal" to display messages generated in display_otr_message(). Those 
internal messages fit perfectly into Kopetes design, indicating encryption 
state changes and other notifications of the lib to the user in a way that 
they do not disturb the user but are definetly noticed. Such messages (also 
used for other types of notifications like online status changes) do neither 
produce system notification events nor get logged in chat history.

The problem now is, that incoming unencrypted messages during an established 
otr session are transformed into such messages because they are delivered 
using display_otr_message(). This leaves kopete users often in the situation 
that they do not notice such incoming messages or loose them in chat 
histories.

Could you think of a way to change that in future versions of libotr to keep 
the actual message as a normal message but informing the user in some other 
way of the unencrypted state of this message? Perhaps just leave it as a 
normal message, but prepend the usual warning. Or maybe better, split the 
warning message and the actual message into two, leaving the warning as an 
internal message, but delivering the actual message as a normal one?

This is one example bug-report I get for this issue:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204502

Cheers,
Michael
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