Using Twitter and Identica accounts with the same username

[kensanata]

I use kensanata on Twitter and kensanata on Identica. I managed to set up both accounts, using chat mode, and everything seems to work. The only strange thing is that my Identica stuff ends up in #twitter_kensanata and my Twitter stuff ends up in #chat_000.

I'm using the ui-fix branch.

[alex@…]

A proposed patch to the bug. Author: Alex Schroeder <alex@…>

[wilmer]

Thanks for the patch!

One thing that I find a bit unfortunate here is that the default name will also change. In most cases people will just be using Twitter, so #twitter_$username should be enough. It'd be nice to chop off the TLD, but with identi.ca that's not perfect either... :-(

[Alex Schroeder <alex@…>]

Replying to wilmer:

One thing that I find a bit unfortunate here is that the default name will also change. In most cases people will just be using Twitter, so #twitter_$username should be enough. It'd be nice to chop off the TLD, but with identi.ca that's not perfect either... :-(

How about using the hostname, but strip off .com if that's what it ends in.

[wilmer]

That may work, yeah. :-)

BTW, what about simply adding a room_name setting? Sorry for coming up with this at this point, but I've had complaints from people that the current name's too long. Having a setting like this would solve both problems.

Also, since Identi.ca is a fairly popular Twitter-compatible service, we can make the Twitter module register an "identica" service, besides Twitter itself, and give it different defaults for base_url, oauth and the channel name setting.

BTW, changing the username shouldn't be necessary since you can just use the rename command to set the nick to something sane.

[Alex Schroeder <kensanata@…>]

Hm, not sure about the room_name setting. Yet another setting to change before it all works? I think my current patch does what is necessary. Having a room name setting in addition to that would be nice to have, but is no longer strictly necessary.

Having the Twitter module register an identica service with appropriate defaults would be awesome, but is a bit beyond my original goal. :)

[Alex Schroeder <kensanata@…>]

twitter.com uses twitter, identi.ca stays identi.ca

[Alex Schroeder <kensanata@…>]

Now with a separate identica protocol; docs are still missing

[Alex Schroeder <kensanata@…>]

Ok, so adding a separate identica protocol was easier than I thought. :)

If you like it, I guess I'll write the docs as well. Just let me know...

[wilmer]

Yeah, I told ya it's easy! :-)

Looks good, just a little bit code duplication that could be avoided. First, you can use something like memcpy() to copy the Twitter prpl struct, change a few fields and register.

Also, you can have one twitter_init() that checks prpl->name to figure out the right defaults for oauth and base_url? Unless you have a strong preference for your current approach..

[Alex Schroeder <kensanata@…>]

I have no strong preferences. I'll take a look at memcpy and the suggested rewrite. I'm away over the week-end so perhaps this'll get delayed. Feel free to just take it and make any changes you want. :)

[wilmer]

Alright, I made a few changes and submitted changeset:wilmer-ui-fix,720. Thanks!

[Alex Schroeder <kensanata@…>]

suggested changes to the documentation