From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S704N-000498-Mf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:53:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B215BE09E9; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4631EE0968 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaoo28 with SMTP id o28so7788038iao.40 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:52:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+2N4k/vBQ4wc963XetUzuij21OX2ahmwJYxvT3eHoFQ=; b=wdz1KLj1C0/Y5KRBv7xi2Fh6r8W6fn1BadrCOG+YhEcvaiV+oYAp1w3iRRi2OptoUv inICuSye6HfF7Jj7iwLIA1ITrhIB8j3Q9jaRplNXbPOusmg0O/Ai+MI66rXMgy9YaU0u c1TOQR9ig2ykhSENzpmrjN2x2I7mvPUCbTFIkCDc2itrkOVAcs/gA7DsZchKwj4D8Dvb ZR7oaZgF18Qn1sv173AZ7Ux/fcAuIhbtymxRwtlXfm033Mh91o2OPDaUOib4EB1fDCip 8WnWfVm8BT5J7UN07KX9awMmHqKKttsezLPUcNC6xveVOierppC+ywsAWArvRsoY7rO+ adjw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.184.168 with SMTP id ev8mr17561269igc.29.1331538740711; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.96.8 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:52:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1331456941.29064.34.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> References: <1331456941.29064.34.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:52:20 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: New irc data field in layman's repositories.xml file format From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 4e134ae6-b279-4f04-b90e-735484aa3bd2 X-Archives-Hash: b2338c7dc695386e690d60e141bfc958 On 11 March 2012 22:09, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > eg: > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0Channel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network > or > =C2=A0 =C2=A0#gentoo-guis on the freenode IRC network, irc://irc.gen= too.org/gentoo-guis > Though a freeform text field is probably better for humans, I'd suggest having more explicit data available as an option, ie: Channel #gentoo-guis on the freenode network This way you can put more behaviour on the display side in whatever UA is processing the XML, for example, you could easily add support for some GUI portage tool to add an "IRC" button on relevant packages being displayed, that opens the IRC channel listed in the users chosen IRC client ( as configured in the GUI's preferences ). --=20 Kent perl -e=C2=A0 "print substr( \"edrgmaM=C2=A0 SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_= * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"