[OTR-dev] [OTR-users] [bug] Pidgin does not notify of new unencrypted messages while encrypting

[Howard Chu]

http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2011-June/001919.html

Was browsing the list archives and stumbled over this. I see that in cvs/git 
the libotr API has changed quite a bit already, pushing the text of these 
messages out of the library and making it the plugin's responsibility to 
handle them. Seems like that's a good idea.

I noticed that the git master for pidgin-otr has been adapted to this already, 
and it also has an additional "force_create" option added to the 
otrg_dialog_display_otr_message() function. It seems to me that's a bit 
wasteful and this should be a generic "flags" argument instead, with one value 
reserved for force_create, and another value to e.g. declare that the message 
should be treated as a PURPLE_MESSAGE_RECV instead of the default of 
PURPLE_MESSAGE_SYSTEM. That would allow the plugin to write the offending 
message as a normal message, and give the notification that the bug filers' 
are looking for.

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