[OTR-dev] Pidgin protocol integration

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Moritz Warning wrote:

> I've made a simple Pidgin protocol plugin and
> it would be nice to be able to use it in combination
> with pidgin-otr.

As far as I know, there is no "preference" in the line of plugins. So
you never know whether or not your plugin will be called before or after
the otr plugin. So unless you hook directly into the otr_plugin itself,
I think you have an unfixable problem.

> Currently it only transfers plain text over UDP packets
> and get "?OTR?v2?" etc. displayed when OTR tries to initialize
> the session.

So it looks like you get the message content before the otr plugin got
it?

> I would also like to know when a fingerprint does not
> match since I might get multiple IP addresses for a buddy
> at program startup and behind all but one are other people.

The otr_plugin has different states displayed in the bottom right. One of
these is "unverified" which means it could not map the key/fingerprint
to an existing verified key/fingerprint. Once you have verified it with
your buddy, it should show up as "private".

One feature that _would_ be nice is that when you have multiple keys and
conversations with different accounts (folderd into one buddy alias)
that the otr plugin would signal to pidgin to "prefer" the "private"
conversation over an "unverified" one.

Paul