[Pidgin] #4869: Unable to copy and paste screen shots from Clipboard in sametime

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#4869: Unable to copy and paste screen shots from Clipboard in sametime
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  Reporter:  dokers       |       Owner:  siege   
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:          
 Component:  Sametime     |     Version:  2.3.1   
Resolution:               |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0            |  
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Changes (by siege):

  * status:  new => assigned
  * type:  defect => enhancement

Comment:

 The explanation on this requires a little bit of history, so bear with me
 for a moment.

 In the beginning, there was plain text in Sametime. This is what Pidgin
 (or at the time, Gaim) first supported.

 Then there was a new Sametime client named NotesBuddy, which among its
 many other features, offered rich-text chatting and embedded images. With
 a little time, support for NotesBuddy's protocol extensions (secretly just
 multipart MIME and a new data message type to wrap it in) made their way
 into Pidgin.

 Then came ST 7.5, which also offered rich-text chatting. However, ST 7.5
 didn't use the same protocol extensions that NotesBuddy had created.
 Instead, they went ahead and created an alternative protocol layer that
 only worked with the new ST 7.5 client.

 So as of right now, if you're chatting with a NotesBuddy user, or another
 Pidgin user, you should be able to use rich text and embed inline images
 and all of that.

 As-of-yet nobody has reverse-engineered the ST 7.5 modifications.

 Unfortunately, I (as the maintainer for the Meanwhile project, which is
 the library Pidgin uses to communicate with a Sametime server) no longer
 use Sametime on a day-to-day basis, having changed employment to a company
 that prefers IRC. This means that it would fall to some other enterprising
 individual to first come over to the Meanwhile library and add support for
 the 7.5 protocol changes, and then come over to Pidgin and update the
 protocol plugin to make use of the new library features. Until that
 happens (in that order), Pidgin cannot support anything but plain-text
 chat with ST 7.5 users.

 If you are interested in this feature, I would recommend filing an RFC
 with the Meanwhile project, as that's where the work needs to start. I'm
 marking this ticket as an enhancement request.

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