Plugin to enable one on one chat without creating a room

[Prabhuk]

Currently we cannot add a contact and initialize chat without joining a room.
There should be an option to choose whether to join the conference on login or to see the list of contacts and initialize chat.

[maennchen]

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[maennchen]

@mweibel How can we do a contact list and check if they're online?

[mweibel]

Well I think to solve this and #13 we have to first discuss about the general direction Candy wants to take, which leads to part of the discussion which is happening right now in candy-chat/candy#207 (MUC and what to do with JIDs).

[LudovicRousseau]

What is missing from Candy (for me) is the ability to list all my contacts connected to the XMPP server. And then start a communication with on of them.

With Adium, pidgin or gtalk I can see all my contacts when I connect to the server. With Candy I need to join a room and I can only see the people that are logged and in that room. My server is ejabbered so I can't use autojoin.

When a contact is in a room I can see it and start a private communication with him. Maybe it is possible to create a kind of fake room with all the contacts connected to the server?

What I am looking for is a HTML "equivalent" of Adium. Maybe Candy is not the good project for that?

[mweibel]

Yeah maybe Jappix would be a better fit for you. I don't think Candy will soon implement this feature. If someone does a plugin for it, why not. But it won't be in the core soon.